Re: ns-2.1b5 installation problem,

[John Heidemann <johnh@ISI.EDU>]

On Tue, 23 Mar 1999 00:47:09 EST, Zhiwei Xiao wrote: 
>  Hi, there:
>   
>    I am trying to install the latest release ns-2.1b5. But something
>weired like this came out:
>
>cc -c -O    -I./../generic -I.  -DHAVE_GETCWD=1 -DNO_STRING_H=1
>-DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DUSE_TERMIOS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TIME_H=1
>-DTIME_WITH_SYS_TIME=1 -DHAVE_TZNAME=1 -DHAVE_TIMEZONE_VAR=1
>-DHAVE_ST_BLKSIZE=1 -Dstrtod=fixstrtod -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DNO_UNION_WAIT=1
>-DNEED_MATHERR=1 -DRETSIGTYPE=void -Dvfork=fork -DHAVE_SYS_IOCTL_H=1
>-DHAVE_SYS_FILIO_H=1        -DTCL_SHLIB_EXT=\".so\"
>./../generic/tclIOUtil.c
>"./../generic/tclIOUtil.c", line 67: undefined symbol: access
>"./../generic/tclIOUtil.c", line 67: warning: initialization type mismatch
>"./../generic/tclIOUtil.c", line 67: non-constant initializer: op "U&"
>"./../generic/tclIOUtil.c", line 243: cannot recover from previous errors
>*** Error code 10
>make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `tclIOUtil.o'
>tcl8.0.4 make failed! Exiting ...
>
>
>could anyone give some advice on that? I appreciate it!
>    
>David Xiao
>UNC-CH CS
>

This error is in Tcl, not ns, so you should consult their web pages
for possible fixes (see http://www.scriptics.com).

That said, it seems like a very wierd error.

   -John Heidemann