Re: [ns] Problem in running ns in SOLARIS

[Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>]

On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Theodoros Salonidis wrote:

>      I have downloaded the "all-in-one" tarball from the ns
> web site in order to install it in SOLARIS (web site says
> that all-in-one works for SOLARIS).

what version of the all-in-one tarball? (% ns-version)
what version of Solaris? (> uname -a) 

My first post to ns-users concerned precisely this problem on Solaris.

http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/archive/ns-users/webarch/1997/msg00199.html

L.
 
> While it has installed and built successfully, when I try to
> run ANY example tcl script, I get the following message:
> 
> "random() called in ns.
> Random is not portable, please use Random::uniform() instead."
> 
> The function random() is in the random.cc file and indeed
> aborts when being invoked. The problem is that I cannot
> locate WHERE random() is invoked so that I can comment it
> out and replace it with Random::uniform() .

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