Re: Problems with running test-suite-sack.tcl

[John Heidemann <johnh@ISI.EDU>]

On Tue, 13 Oct 1998 16:36:56 CDT, "Rajesh S. Pazhyannur" wrote: 
>Hi,
>
>I seem to be having trouble running the following on my SGI workstation.
>
>
>ns test-suite-sack.tcl sackB4
>
>I get the following errors:
>
>ns: _o3 cleanup file5 sackB4: Syntax error in file ../../bin/raw2xg at
>line 43, next 2 tokens "my("
>Syntax error in file ../../bin/raw2xg at line 59, next 2 tokens
>"translate_point("
>Syntax error in file ../../bin/raw2xg at line 94, next 2 tokens
>"translate_point("
>Execution of ../../bin/raw2xg aborted due to compilation errors.
>Can't locate 5.0010000000000003 in @INC at ../../bin/getrc line 4.
>    while executing
>"exec ../../bin/getrc -s 2 -d 3 all.tr |  ../../bin/raw2xg -s 0.01 -m 90
>-t $file > temp.rands"
>    (procedure "_o3" line 3)
>    (TestSuite finish line 3)
>    invoked from within
>"$self finish $testname"
>    (procedure "_o3" line 11)
>    (TestSuite cleanup line 11)
>    invoked from within
>"_o3 cleanup file5 sackB4"
>
>Thanks for your help
>
>Rajesh
>
>

Get perl5 and/or make sure the programs in ~ns/bin are invoking perl5.

Configure checks for perl5, but apparently this check is not
sufficient for many people's systems.  Suggestions for improving the
check are encouraged (it already works on our systems).

   -John Heidemann