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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.
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16:
17: RPL/2 signifies Reverse Polish Lisp/2. This language is obvious derivated
18: from the first RPL written by Hewlett-Packard for its 28S calculator. Thus,
19: this language is a half-compiled high level language which can perform
20: symbolic and scientific computations.
21:
22:
23: * RPL/2 requires :
24: - nawk or gawk;
25: - libtool 1.5 or newer. To build RPL/2 on Mac OSX, you should have to
26: add libtool m4 path in tools/file-*/configure.ac and
27: tools/file-*/Makefile.am;
28: - gcc-4.4 or newer;
29: - g++-4.4 or newer;
30: - gfortran-4.4 or newer.
31:
32: RPL/2 build process invoques automake and autoconf.
33:
34: * OpenSSL issue :
35:
36: OpenSSL does not use any configure script. If build process aborts on
37: error related to OpenSSL, you shall try to build OpenSSL before running
38: 'make'. On some system, OpenSSL configure script is unable to set compiler
39: flags.
40:
41: * RPL/2 is known to run on :
42:
43: - Linux (kernel 2.6.26 and beyond). Test distribution is Debian.
44: - Solaris 8 and beyond.
45: It can be built out of the box on Solaris in a 32bits userland. For a
46: 64bits executable, you have to modify some generated makefiles or
47: specify some options. See 64bits on Solaris.
48: - FreeBSD 7.x. I have installed a FreeBSD 7.0, upgraded to 7.2
49: and RPL/2 ran without any trouble. RPL/2 does not run on early
50: FreeBSD 8.0 because sig_info_t struct is not filled. This bug is now
51: fixed. Someone has reported that FreeBSD 7.2 did not filled this
52: struct too...
53: - NetBSD 5.0 and beyond.
54: - OpenBSD 4.8 and beyond.
55: - Windows with Cygwin (>= 1.7.5).
56: - OS/2 and eComStation with EMX (>= 0.9d). You probably have to
57: recreate configure script and makefiles with aclocal, autoconf and
58: automake.
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60: WARNING : eCS DEFINES TMP VARIABLE THAT OVERWRITES PATHS
61: IN FOPEN() SYSTEM CALL. /TMP/xxx IS REPLACED BY /%TMP%/xxx.
62: THIS BUG ONLY OCCURS WHEN RPL/2 IS CALLED FROM OS/2 OR 4OS2 SHELL.
63: WORKAROUND : DEFINE RPL_TMP_PATH WITH A DRIVE LETTER LIKE
64:
65: SET RPL_TMP_PATH=C:/tmp
66:
67: OR CALL RPL/2 FROM A BOURNE SHELL.
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69: - Mac OS X.
70:
71: * RPL/2 should run on :
72:
73: - AIX
74: - HP-UX (10.20 and beyond), but not tested for a long time.
75: - NetBSD 4.0 and beyond with restriction due to sigpending bug.
76:
77: Any information about RPL/2 on these last operating systems are welcome.
78:
79: * RPL/2 is not supported on :
80:
81: - OpenVMS (work in progress) on Alpha and Integrity due to some bugs in GNV.
82: RPL/2 never works on OpenVMS VAX because GNV is too old on this
83: architecture.
84: - Hurd because sig_info_t is not filled.
85:
86: * RPL/2 shall never be supported on :
87:
88: - Windows (all versions) without Cygwin.
89: - Mac OS preX.
90:
91: Tools directory contains some libraries that are normally provided by
92: all Posix systems. These libraries are built during build process
93: and RPL/2 is statically linked with them because I have seen that on
94: several systems, some Posix libraries have strange 'features'...
95:
96: On all systems, you must install GNU make and you should install
97: gcc/g++/gfortran (minimal release : 4.2.0). It is possible to build
98: RPL/2 with some other compilers (for example cc and f95 from SunStudio,
99: or cc and f95 from Digital^WCompaq^WHP) but I do not test all potential
100: combinaisons.
101:
102: * 64 bits on Solaris (are you sure that you need 64bits wide RPL/2 ?)
103:
104: You have to configure RPL/2 with some user defined variables.
105:
106: CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -m64" CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -m64" FCFLAGS="$FCFLAGS -m64" \
107: FFLAGS="$FFLAGS -m64" LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -m64" ./configure (options)
108:
109: If you want to use mysql or postgresql support, you should obtain 64bits
110: binary executables, libraries and daemons. PostgreSQL 8.3.5 does not compile
111: on Solaris 10 in 64bits mode with gcc/GNU ld (due to a strange bug, ld
112: tries to build a 32bits wide library with 64bits objects even if -m64 is
113: specified on command line...). I have not tried mysql.
114:
115: If you want to use rplc, you have to use GNU ld, not Solaris ld, due to
116: another bug that avoid symbol exportation. You have to check that rpl
117: is linked with libmtmalloc and not with libmalloc from libc because there
118: is another bug in Solaris' libc : free() can enter in a deadlock
119: (internal locked mutex).
120:
121: Of course, all 64bits libraries have to be accessible by LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
122:
123: tchaikovski:[/usr/shared-apps/bin] > file rpl
124: rpl: ELF 64-bit MSB executable SPARCV9 Version 1, dynamically linked,
125: not stripped
126:
127: Very easy^Wnice, isn't it ?
128:
129: J. Bertrand <joel.bertrand@systella.fr>
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