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2: RPL/2 (R)
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6: WARNING :
7:
8: LESSTIF IS BROKEN AND CORRUPTS HEAP. PLEASE, DO NOT USE LESSTIF INSTEAD
9: REGULAR MOTIF LIBRARIES!
10:
11: I SHALL NOT ACCEPT ANY BUG REPORT FROM USERS THAT HAVE BUILD RPL/2 WITH
12: LESSTIF LIBRAIRIES SINCE OPENMOTIF IS AVAILABLE.
13:
14: DO NOT USE 'make install-strip' THAT BREAKS RPL/2.
15:
16: NOTE :
17:
18: IF RPL/2 ABORTS WITH BUS ERROR, PLEASE TRY TO REBUILD OPENSSL (tools)
19: WITH no-asm OPTION. OPENSSL IS BROKEN ON SPARC ARCHITECTURE. MAYBE ON SOME
20: OTHERS.
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22:
23: RPL/2 signifies Reverse Polish Lisp/2. This language is obvious derivated
24: from the first RPL written by Hewlett-Packard for its 28S calculator. Thus,
25: this language is a half-compiled high level language which can perform
26: symbolic and scientific computations.
27:
28:
29: * RPL/2 requires :
30: - nawk or gawk;
31: - libtool 1.5 or newer. To build RPL/2 on Mac OSX, you should have to
32: add libtool m4 path in tools/file-*/configure.ac and
33: tools/file-*/Makefile.am;
34: - gcc-4.4 or newer;
35: - g++-4.4 or newer;
36: - gfortran-4.4 or newer.
37:
38: RPL/2 build process invoques automake and autoconf.
39:
40: * OpenSSL issue :
41:
42: OpenSSL does not use any configure script. If build process aborts on
43: error related to OpenSSL, you shall try to build OpenSSL before running
44: 'make'. On some system, OpenSSL configure script is unable to set compiler
45: flags.
46:
47: * RPL/2 is known to run on :
48:
49: - Linux (kernel 2.6.26 and beyond). Test distribution is Debian.
50: - Solaris 8 and beyond.
51: It can be built out of the box on Solaris in a 32bits userland. For a
52: 64bits executable, you have to modify some generated makefiles or
53: specify some options. See 64bits on Solaris.
54: - FreeBSD 7.x. I have installed a FreeBSD 7.0, upgraded to 7.2
55: and RPL/2 ran without any trouble. RPL/2 does not run on early
56: FreeBSD 8.0 because sig_info_t struct is not filled. This bug is now
57: fixed. Someone has reported that FreeBSD 7.2 did not filled this
58: struct too...
59: - NetBSD 5.0 and beyond.
60: - OpenBSD 4.8 and beyond.
61: - Windows with Cygwin (>= 1.7.5).
62: - OS/2 and eComStation with EMX (>= 0.9d). You probably have to
63: recreate configure script and makefiles with aclocal, autoconf and
64: automake.
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66: WARNING : eCS DEFINES TMP VARIABLE THAT OVERWRITES PATHS
67: IN FOPEN() SYSTEM CALL. /TMP/xxx IS REPLACED BY /%TMP%/xxx.
68: THIS BUG ONLY OCCURS WHEN RPL/2 IS CALLED FROM OS/2 OR 4OS2 SHELL.
69: WORKAROUND : DEFINE RPL_TMP_PATH WITH A DRIVE LETTER LIKE
70:
71: SET RPL_TMP_PATH=C:/tmp
72:
73: OR CALL RPL/2 FROM A BOURNE SHELL.
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75: - Mac OS X.
76:
77: * RPL/2 should run on :
78:
79: - AIX
80: - HP-UX (10.20 and beyond), but not tested for a long time.
81: - NetBSD 4.0 and beyond with restriction due to sigpending bug.
82:
83: Any information about RPL/2 on these last operating systems are welcome.
84:
85: * RPL/2 is not supported on :
86:
87: - OpenVMS (work in progress) on Alpha and Integrity due to some bugs in GNV.
88: RPL/2 never works on OpenVMS VAX because GNV is too old on this
89: architecture.
90: - Hurd because sig_info_t is not filled.
91:
92: * RPL/2 shall never be supported on :
93:
94: - Windows (all versions) without Cygwin.
95: - Mac OS preX.
96:
97: Tools directory contains some libraries that are normally provided by
98: all Posix systems. These libraries are built during build process
99: and RPL/2 is statically linked with them because I have seen that on
100: several systems, some Posix libraries have strange 'features'...
101:
102: On all systems, you must install GNU make and you should install
103: gcc/g++/gfortran (minimal release : 4.2.0). It is possible to build
104: RPL/2 with some other compilers (for example cc and f95 from SunStudio,
105: or cc and f95 from Digital^WCompaq^WHP) but I do not test all potential
106: combinaisons.
107:
108: * 64 bits on Solaris (are you sure that you need 64bits wide RPL/2 ?)
109:
110: You have to configure RPL/2 with some user defined variables.
111:
112: CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -m64" CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -m64" FCFLAGS="$FCFLAGS -m64" \
113: FFLAGS="$FFLAGS -m64" LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -m64" ./configure (options)
114:
115: If you want to use mysql or postgresql support, you should obtain 64bits
116: binary executables, libraries and daemons. PostgreSQL 8.3.5 does not compile
117: on Solaris 10 in 64bits mode with gcc/GNU ld (due to a strange bug, ld
118: tries to build a 32bits wide library with 64bits objects even if -m64 is
119: specified on command line...). I have not tried mysql.
120:
121: If you want to use rplc, you have to use GNU ld, not Solaris ld, due to
122: another bug that avoid symbol exportation. You have to check that rpl
123: is linked with libmtmalloc and not with libmalloc from libc because there
124: is another bug in Solaris' libc : free() can enter in a deadlock
125: (internal locked mutex).
126:
127: Of course, all 64bits libraries have to be accessible by LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
128:
129: tchaikovski:[/usr/shared-apps/bin] > file rpl
130: rpl: ELF 64-bit MSB executable SPARCV9 Version 1, dynamically linked,
131: not stripped
132:
133: Very easy^Wnice, isn't it ?
134:
135: J. Bertrand <joel.bertrand@systella.fr>
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