Machine-specific notes

 

• DEC Alpha OSF/1: Use the standard C compiler:

      $ export CC="cc -std1" ; ./configure [options]

  Gcc is apparently broken for DEC Alphas. --with-mallocstats and --with-gnumalloc cannot be used with DEC Alpha OSF/1. --enable-maxmem=22528 seems to be about right for an active 64MB DEC Alpha.
• BSD/386 V1.1, BSD/OS V2.0: Use GNU make (gmake).

      $ export MAKE=gmake ; ./configure [options]

• Solaris 2.3: Tcl incorrectly includes dirent.h, getcwd.c, and opendir.c from the tcl7.3/compat directory. Make sure these files are not used in the configuration. You probably will see random core dumps otherwise, and the glob * command will fail in qwish. Solaris 2.3 has both the getcwd() and readdir() functions in its standard library.
• Linux: If you have problems with locking under Linux, please report them. Linux record locking code is nonstandard, but Qddb attempts to work around it. We know of no problems with our workaround. Versions of Linux starting around 2.0 claim to be POSIX-compliant and should have no problem.