| 1 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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| 2 |
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| 3 | <sect2>
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| 4 | <title>Installation of Tcl</title>
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| 5 |
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| 6 | <para>This package and the next two are only installed to be able to run the
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| 7 | test suites for GCC and Binutils. Installing three packages just for testing
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| 8 | purposes may seem like overkill, but it is very reassuring, if not essential,
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| 9 | to know that our most important tools are working properly.</para>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <para>Prepare Tcl to be compiled:</para>
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| 12 |
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| 13 | <screen><userinput>cd unix
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| 14 | ./configure --prefix=/tools</userinput></screen>
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| 15 |
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| 16 | <para>Build the package:</para>
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| 17 |
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| 18 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 19 |
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| 20 | <para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of
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| 21 | checks to ensure it built correctly. However, the Tcl test suite here in
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| 22 | Chapter 5 is known to experience failures under certain host conditions that
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| 23 | are not fully understood. Therefore, test suite failures here are not
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| 24 | surprising, but are not considered critical. Should you choose to run the test
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| 25 | suite, the following command will do so:</para>
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| 26 |
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| 27 | <screen><userinput>TZ=UTC make test</userinput></screen>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <para>The meaning of the make option:</para>
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| 30 |
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| 31 | <itemizedlist>
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| 32 | <listitem><para><userinput>TZ=UTC</userinput>: This sets the time zone to
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| 33 | Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) also known as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), but
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| 34 | only for the duration of the test suite run. This ensures the clock tests are
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| 35 | exercised correctly. More information on the TZ environment variable is
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| 36 | available later on in Chapter 7.</para></listitem>
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| 37 | </itemizedlist>
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| 38 |
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| 39 | <para>Sometimes, package test suites will give false failures. You can
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| 40 | consult the LFS Wiki at <ulink url="http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/"/>
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| 41 | to verify that these failures are normal. This applies to all tests
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| 42 | throughout the book.</para>
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| 43 |
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| 44 | <para>Install the package:</para>
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| 45 |
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| 46 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 47 |
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| 48 | <para>Make a necessary symbolic link:</para>
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| 49 |
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| 50 | <screen><userinput>ln -s tclsh8.4 /tools/bin/tclsh</userinput></screen>
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| 51 |
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| 52 | <!-- HACK - Force some whitespace to appease tidy -->
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| 53 | <literallayout></literallayout>
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| 54 |
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| 55 | <caution><para>Do not remove the
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| 56 | <filename>tcl&tcl-version;</filename> source directory yet, as the next package
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| 57 | will need its internal headers.</para></caution>
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| 58 |
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| 59 | </sect2>
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| 60 |
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