NS installation problems w/ a FreeBSD machine

[Youngbae - Ko <youngbae@cs.tamu.edu>]

Hello,

I tried to install the current version of ns-2.1b6 on a FreeBSD 2.2.7
machine and saw that the executable 'ns' file was successfully generated
under the ns-2.1b6 directory. 
(actually, I tried both by *all-in-one* and by *piece-by-piece* 
and got the same result as explained below.) 

However, when I run <validate> or <ns> files, something is wrong!!
Shortly, with running ./ns, all Tcl commands are shown on the screen 
and finally stop with the below error messages:

     :
     :

   no value given for parameter "text" to "checkout_executable"
      while executing
   "checkout_executable  PERL  perl "\
   When configured, ns found the right version of perl in\
   
   but it doesn't seem to be there anymore, so\
   ns will fail b..."


I have never experienced this kind of installation problem with Solaris.
Anyway, if you know what the problem is and how to fix it, 
please let me know. Thanks,

- Youngbae

P.S> FYI, here is a part of commands shown on the screen
     when I run ./ns.

     proc warn {msg} {
     global warned_
     if {![info exists warned_($msg)]} {
     puts stderr "warning: $msg"
     set warned_ ($msg) 1
     }
     }

           :
           :
           :
           :

      



On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Ya Xu wrote:

> I know tora has problem w/ Solaris. But it works fine w/ Fbsd & linux
> (AFAIK). So far I do not know why it does not work w/ Solaris. I do not
> have solaris machine to trace down the problem.
> 
> -Ya