From 45ac21b7f9d61be4efdbe0e05981041cb81a4211 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Angus Leeming Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 16:37:13 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update the notes on compilation under Tru64 unix. git-svn-id: svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk@4405 a592a061-630c-0410-9148-cb99ea01b6c8 --- ChangeLog | 4 +++ INSTALL | 74 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------ 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 0f94cb460d..1324df28a6 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2002-06-13 Angus Leeming + + * INSTALL: how to compile with Compaq cxx on Tru64 Unix. + 2002-06-12 Angus Leeming * configure.in: add xforms/forms/*.lo to the xforms version of diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 6bcc078160..954f999729 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -335,46 +335,8 @@ notify us. then you need to upgrade the version of the xforms library you have installed. - o It is possible to compile lyx with Tru64 Unix cxx compiler - version 6.2, provided one uses - CXX='cxx -std strict_ansi' - CXXFLAGS='-ptr /tmp/lyx_cxx_repository -g' - CC=cc - - Note that this will not work when compiling directly from the cvs - repository, due to the tricks used by automake for dependencies. Ask - Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes@inria.fr for a workaround. - - Or rather, it may well work if you are using automake 1.5 and autoconf 2.5 - or greater, but you'll have to patch automake's depcomp first. (Depcomp - is a little shell script to automagically work out file dependencies - and it's broken for automake 1.5 and Tru64 :-(). The patch is to be found - in config/depcomp.diff. - Angus 22 March, 2002. - - o On Tru64 Unix, you may have to compile with - --with-included-string to work around a Tru64 linker limitation - (the STL string template creates names which may be too long). We - also had reports that it helps with gcc 2.95.2 on solaris 2.6. - - Using Tru64 Unix 4.0e, the std::string is fine. - Angus 22 March, 2002. - - o On Tru64 Unix with cxx, you may have a compilation error in - lyx_main.C if you have GNU gettext installed. This is due to a bug - in gettext. To solve this, you can either (1) configure with - --with-included-gettext or (2) add -D__STDC__ to cxx flags. - - o On Tru64 Unix 4.0e, the STL library routine std::count is broken - (/usr/include/cxx/algorithm.cc, line 289 on my machine). - It calculates "n" but does not return it! The fix is to add "return n;" to - the end of the (4-line long) routine. - Angus 22 March, 2002. - - o On Tru64 Unix 4.0e, compilation of support/lyxsum.C dies horribly. The - work-around is to use the old version, 1.18, of this routine. Ask - Angus Leeming for details. - Angus 22 March, 2002. + o On solaris 2.6, you may have to compile with --with-included-string + if compiling with gcc 2.95.2. o According to David Sundqvist , some changes are needed to compile with aCC on HP-UX 10.20. These are the @@ -385,6 +347,36 @@ notify us. # which currently break. LIBS = -lforms -lXpm -lSM -lICE -lc -lm -lX11 -lCsup # must link with Csup - LDFLAGS = -L/opt/aCC/lib # perhaps not needed. + LDFLAGS = -L/opt/aCC/lib # perhaps not needed. + o LyX can be compiled on Tru64 Unix with either GNU's gcc or the default + Compaq cxx compiler. + There are no Alpha-specific problems with gcc. + + The following notes all refer to compilation with the Compaq cxx compiler. + + LyX cannot be compiled on Tru64 Unix 4.0d or 4.0e with the default cxx + compiler. You should upgrade to at least cxx V6.2, to be found at + ftp::/ftp.compaq.com/pub/products/C-CXX/tru64/cxx/CXX622V40.tar. Users + running Tru64 Unix 4.0f and greater should have no real problems compiling + LyX. + + cxx V6.2 will compile LyX out of the box. + cxx V6.3-020 is also known to work, although there is a bug in + /usr/include/cxx/deque. See Angus Leeming for the + patch. + At the time of writing, cxx V6.5-026 is the latest cxx compiler. It is + /not/ recommended. Not only do the bugs in the system header files still + exist, but the compiler itself appears to be both buggy and extremely + bloated (trebles the size of the stripped LyX binary). + + In order to compile LyX with the cxx compiler, you should run configure + with the following flags: + CXX='cxx -std strict_ansi' + CXXFLAGS='-nopure_cname -nocleanup -ptr /tmp/lyx_cxx_repository -O2' + CC='cc -std1' + The -nopure_cname flag is needed for compilers V6.3 and above because + LyX makes use of functions like popen, pclose that are defined in the + c version of but are not formally part of any c/c++ standard. + They are not, therefore, included in the header file.