Re: [ns] Tclcl Compile fails in ns-allinone-2.1b6

[John Heidemann <johnh@ISI.EDU>]

>I wonder if anyone can help with installation problems
>I'm seeing for ns-2.1b6 - allinone. Last year, I
>was able to successfully install ns-2.1b5 on this 
>machine.
>
>The installation
>works fine for tcl, tk and otcl however tclcl-1.0b9 fails
>when it tries to compile: embedded-tcl.cc ... the trace is 
>at the bottom of this msg. 
>
>I then tried to manually compile in the tclcl directory with
>the following error message:
>
>embedded-tcl.cc:1: unterminated string or character constant
>embedded-tcl.cc:1660: possible real start of unterminated constant
>make: *** [embedded-tcl.o] Error 1
>
>If I'm not mistaken the file is generated by tcl2c++. 
>I had a look at the file and somehow it doesn't to have 
>been correctly generated. At the very least, it appears
>truncated.
>
>Has anyone seen this problem before?
>
>Platform: Linux RedHat 6.0 or 6.1
>          2.2.12-20
>
>I tried downloading newer versions of tcl (8.3.2)
>with no apparent luck.
>
>Any help would be gratefully received.

I suggest you try again and check for unusual conditions about your
system (out of disk space? a prior error?)... that program has run
fine on exactly that platform for many other people.

   -John Heidemann