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    1: ================================================================================
    2:     RPL/2 (R)
    3: ================================================================================
    4: 
    5: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    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: 
   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:     - bash in /bin/bash. To build RPL/CAS on NetBSD, you have to add a soft link
   32:       like 'ln -s /usr/pkg/bin/bash /bin/bash'.
   33: 
   34:     RPL/2 build process invoques automake and autoconf.
   35: 
   36:   * OpenSSL issue :
   37: 
   38:     OpenSSL does not use any configure script. If build process aborts on
   39: error related to OpenSSL, you shall try to build OpenSSL before running
   40: 'make'. On some system, OpenSSL configure script is unable to set compiler
   41: flags.
   42: 
   43:   * RPL/2 cross compilation :
   44: 
   45:     To cross-compile RPL/2, you have to build in a first time a native
   46:     RPL/2 on build host. Installation is not required. In a second time,
   47:     you have to configure RPL/2 for target host in another directory like :
   48: 
   49: ../rpl/configure --host=arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi --enable-full-static
   50: --with-sysroot=/home/bertrand/x-tools/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi/sysroot
   51: --without-mysql --without-postgresql --without-x
   52: --with-rpltools=/home/bertrand/cvs/rpl/build --with-openssl-arch=linux-generic32
   53: 
   54:     Of course, you have to configure OpenSSL with --with-openssl-arch.
   55: 
   56:   * RPL/2 is known to run on :
   57: 
   58:     - Linux (kernel 2.6.26 and beyond). Test distribution is Debian.
   59:     - Solaris 8 and beyond.
   60:         It can be built out of the box on Solaris in a 32bits userland. For a
   61:         64bits executable, you have to modify some generated makefiles or
   62:         specify some options. See 64bits on Solaris.
   63:     - FreeBSD 7.x. I have installed a FreeBSD 7.0, upgraded to 7.2
   64:         and RPL/2 ran without any trouble. RPL/2 does not run on early
   65:         FreeBSD 8.0 because sig_info_t struct is not filled. This bug is now
   66:         fixed. Someone has reported that FreeBSD 7.2 did not filled this
   67:         struct too...
   68:     - NetBSD 5.0 and beyond.
   69:     - OpenBSD 4.8 and beyond.
   70:     - Windows with Cygwin (>= 1.7.5).
   71:     - OS/2 and eComStation with EMX (>= 0.9d). You probably have to
   72:         recreate configure script and makefiles with aclocal, autoconf and
   73:         automake.
   74:         ========================================================================
   75:         WARNING : eCS DEFINES TMP VARIABLE THAT OVERWRITES PATHS
   76:         IN FOPEN() SYSTEM CALL. /TMP/xxx IS REPLACED BY /%TMP%/xxx.
   77:         THIS BUG ONLY OCCURS WHEN RPL/2 IS CALLED FROM OS/2 OR 4OS2 SHELL.
   78:         WORKAROUND : DEFINE RPL_TMP_PATH WITH A DRIVE LETTER LIKE
   79: 
   80:             SET RPL_TMP_PATH=C:/tmp
   81: 
   82:         OR CALL RPL/2 FROM A BOURNE SHELL.
   83:         ========================================================================
   84:     - Mac OS X.
   85: 
   86:   * RPL/2 should run on :
   87: 
   88:     - AIX
   89:     - HP-UX (10.20 and beyond), but not tested for a long time.
   90:     - NetBSD 4.0 and beyond with restriction due to sigpending bug.
   91: 
   92:     Any information about RPL/2 on these last operating systems are welcome.
   93: 
   94:   * RPL/2 is not supported on :
   95: 
   96:     - OpenVMS (work in progress) on Alpha and Integrity due to some bugs in GNV.
   97:         RPL/2 never works on OpenVMS VAX because GNV is too old on this
   98:         architecture.
   99:     - Hurd because sig_info_t is not filled.
  100: 
  101:   * RPL/2 shall never be supported on :
  102: 
  103:     - Windows (all versions) without Cygwin.
  104:     - Mac OS preX.
  105: 
  106:     Tools directory contains some libraries that are normally provided by
  107:     all Posix systems. These libraries are built during build process
  108:     and RPL/2 is statically linked with them because I have seen that on
  109:     several systems, some Posix libraries have strange 'features'...
  110: 
  111:     On all systems, you must install GNU make and you should install
  112:     gcc/g++/gfortran (minimal release : 4.2.0). It is possible to build
  113:     RPL/2 with some other compilers (for example cc and f95 from SunStudio,
  114:     or cc and f95 from Digital^WCompaq^WHP) but I do not test all potential
  115:     combinaisons.
  116: 
  117:   * 64 bits on Solaris (are you sure that you need 64bits wide RPL/2 ?)
  118: 
  119:     You have to configure RPL/2 with some user defined variables.
  120: 
  121:     CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -m64" CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -m64" FCFLAGS="$FCFLAGS -m64" \
  122:             FFLAGS="$FFLAGS -m64" LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -m64" ./configure (options)
  123: 
  124:     If you want to use mysql or postgresql support, you should obtain 64bits
  125:     binary executables, libraries and daemons. PostgreSQL 8.3.5 does not compile
  126:     on Solaris 10 in 64bits mode with gcc/GNU ld (due to a strange bug, ld
  127:     tries to build a 32bits wide library with 64bits objects even if -m64 is
  128:     specified on command line...). I have not tried mysql.
  129: 
  130:     If you want to use rplc, you have to use GNU ld, not Solaris ld, due to
  131:     another bug that avoid symbol exportation. You have to check that rpl
  132:     is linked with libmtmalloc and not with libmalloc from libc because there
  133:     is another bug in Solaris' libc : free() can enter in a deadlock
  134:     (internal locked mutex).
  135: 
  136:     Of course, all 64bits libraries have to be accessible by LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
  137: 
  138: tchaikovski:[/usr/shared-apps/bin] > file rpl
  139: rpl: ELF 64-bit MSB executable SPARCV9 Version 1, dynamically linked,
  140:      not stripped
  141: 
  142:     Very easy^Wnice, isn't it ?
  143: 
  144:   * OS/2 and eComstation
  145: 
  146:     GSL configure script is broken. You have to replace
  147:     $(SHELL) $(top_buildir)/libtool by sh $(top_buildir)/libtool in each
  148:     Makefile. By default, makefile's try to use ash.exe that is broken.
  149: 
  150:     J. Bertrand <joel.bertrand@systella.fr>

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