[ECOS] where is ecosconfig?

[Chuck McManis]

At 09:15 PM 3/30/2004, Gary Thomas wrote:

>Charles McManis said:
> > Just out of curiosity, the cvs tree from ecos.sourceware.org does not 
> contain
> > ecosconfig. The linux tarball does, but it must be under cvs somewhere 
> right?
> >
>
>It's there, you just need to know where to look :-)
>
>You'll find the sources in .../ecos/host/tools/configtool  Instructions for
>how to rebuild it (not for the faint of heart :-) are on the website.

Nope, if you do this:
cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anoncvs@ecos.sourceware.org:/cvs/ecos co -P ecos

You get lots of stuff, including all the packages in current, but you don't 
get a 'host' directory under ecos. However, if you then cd to the newly 
created ecos directory and do this:

cvs co host

You do get the host subdirectory and all of its tools.

Which is sort of a bummer since I just finished hacking the 2.0 source to 
build and now have to do it all over again :-).

That being said, its really, really difficult to build on FreeBSD systems 
(from the 2.0 Linux tarball) because of FreeBSD's default to put TCL under
         /usr/local/include/tcl8.4/
         /usr/local/lib/tcl8.4/
         /usr/local/bin/tclsh8.4

The --with-tcl-version stuff in the configure files doesn't quite work the 
way one would hope. The --with-tcl-header and --with-tcl-lib are not even 
activated unless MSVC is also true so they are no help. I can manually hack 
the configure files to find TCL and do the right thing but I've not figured 
out the "proper" way to do this yet.

On a related note, are the configure files generated automatically or by 
hand? They seem to be done by hand by editing some template. I'll make my 
diffs available for those who might want to use them. I've also started to 
look at what it would take to create a 'ports' version of ecos for FreeBSD. 
Again, another project I've not got time for but perhaps...

--Chuck



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