On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 11:17:19 +0200 (MET DST)  Per Hedeland <per@erix.ericsson.se> wrote:
> "alea miras" <alea101@postmaster.co.uk> wrote:
> >gs:start(). gives no result, that is the Erlang shell has to be
> >interrupted manually, so I guess your assumption must be right - it
> >should be a problem with gs. So how could I correct this? I assumed the
> >installation of gs together with other libraries would have been
> >handled by 'make install'. At least there is a gs-1.3.6 directory under
> >Root_Of_Erlang/lib/erlang/lib.
> >
> >If I go into Root_Of_Erlang_Source/lib/gs and do a ./configure there is
> >a complain about Tcl standalone support:
> >
> >checking standalone support of Tcl... don't know
> >== Warning: Your libtcl7.6.a is not yet created in the directory
> >   /opt/erlang/src/otp_src_R6B-0/lib/gs/c_src/lib/tcl7.6/unix, so I cannot determine this.
> >   For now I just assume there is standalone support.
> >   If you get an error later during the build of wish.standalone,
> >   then first compile Tcl7.6 with standalone support.
> 
> This is normal. However as Daniel suggested, please apply the patches
> from the "bugs & fixes" page - in particular the one for tclPosixStr.c
> fixes a problem that will make the build of tcl (and thereby gs) fail on
> RH 6.1, I assume 6.2 too - but you might just as well apply them all.
> 
> >but the compilation via make keeps going. Any ideas?
> 
> Well, the make system isn't perfect (yet:-), it will in some cases
> continue with the build even when there is a fatal error in some part
> (there will of course be error messages, though) - or perhaps this is a
> feature?:-)
> 
> --Per Hedeland
> per@erix.ericsson.se


OK - the patches did it. All problems are gone and I'm in good mood again ;)

Thank you all for your advices -
Kind regards,
Alea Miras

