Bugs/Threaded Tcl
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| + | = Some recent versions of Debian have begun shipping out with TCL pre-compiled as threaded instead of non-threaded. The techno-babble: In its current form, eggdrop cannot detect whether TCL is compiled as threaded or not. For many years, the developers just assumed that TCL was not threaded, as it was shipped this way with OS's nearly all the time. Debian recently changed this, and as a result of not being able to detect that during the compile process, a few changes need to be made to the source to allow it to run again. Again, for the average user, what was just described won't make sense and doesn't need to, there is no advantage for eggdrop to run with threaded or non-threaded TCL. Bottom line, if you want to fix it, try one of the solutions below. | ||
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= Solution 1: Apply [[User:Tothwolf|Tothwolf]]'s Patch to your 1.6.19 source = | = Solution 1: Apply [[User:Tothwolf|Tothwolf]]'s Patch to your 1.6.19 source = | ||
[[User:Tothwolf|Tothwolf]]'s patch can be found [http://www.techmonkeys.org/~tothwolf/eggdrop/eggdrop1.6.19-threads.patch here]. | [[User:Tothwolf|Tothwolf]]'s patch can be found [http://www.techmonkeys.org/~tothwolf/eggdrop/eggdrop1.6.19-threads.patch here]. | ||
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# make install | # make install | ||
# enjoy! | # enjoy! | ||
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= Solution 2: Edit config.h = | = Solution 2: Edit config.h = | ||
Revision as of 21:41, 7 October 2009
= Some recent versions of Debian have begun shipping out with TCL pre-compiled as threaded instead of non-threaded. The techno-babble: In its current form, eggdrop cannot detect whether TCL is compiled as threaded or not. For many years, the developers just assumed that TCL was not threaded, as it was shipped this way with OS's nearly all the time. Debian recently changed this, and as a result of not being able to detect that during the compile process, a few changes need to be made to the source to allow it to run again. Again, for the average user, what was just described won't make sense and doesn't need to, there is no advantage for eggdrop to run with threaded or non-threaded TCL. Bottom line, if you want to fix it, try one of the solutions below.
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Solution 1: Apply Tothwolf's Patch to your 1.6.19 source
Tothwolf's patch can be found here. Specific instructions on how to apply it are here.
- Apply this patch to the 1.6.19 source.
- Reconfigure your source with --enable-tcl-threads (./configure --enable-tcl-threads).
- make config
- make
- make install
- enjoy!
Solution 2: Edit config.h
After you ./configure your bot, edit config.h. Change the following 2 lines (On my system they are at line 244):
/* Define for Tcl that has threads. */ /* #undef HAVE_TCL_THREADS */
to this:
/* Define for Tcl that has threads. */ #define HAVE_TCL_THREADS 1
Carry on with your make config && make && make install.
Solution 3: Recompile Tcl
So, here's the deal. Eggdrop is supposed to be coded to handle Tcl threading. Either that code never worked, or it's now broken because of some change in Tcl internally. The solution? Compile and install Tcl with no threads, then recompile and reinstall your eggdrop.
Yeah, some of you will say 'Oh, ok, easy' and go and do it. The rest of you are probably saying 'Huh?'
These are some of the possible solutions to fix your problem:
If you don't have root access
If you have root access
Debian with Tcl 8.5, Ubuntu 8.04 with Tcl 8.5
- Install the dependencies for developing debian packages using apt-get. There is a list of these dependencies on this page in section 1.1.
- mkdir /root/tcl
- cd /root/tcl
- apt-get source tcl8.5
- cd into the directory it creates (tcl8.5-8.5.2 currently)
- cd debian
- edit rules; remove the line " --enable-threads \" (currently line 52)
- cd ..
- dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
- Your .deb files are now being built.
- cd ..
- dpkg -i *.deb
Instead of doing that yourself, you could download the .deb files here: Debian and Ubunto 8.04 and dpkg -i them yourself.
If you don't trust the files I've built, build them yourself, it shouldn't be that hard.
- Note: The Ubunto 8.04 tcl8.5 debian/rules file is borked. The quotes in lines 16, 21, and 23 need to be removed. Line 57 should be '$(MAKE) CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)"'. The Ubuntu-MOTU group has been notified, and someone is filing a bug.
RHEL5/CentOS5 or Fedora Core 9 with Tcl 8.5
- mkdir /root/tcl
- cd /root/tcl
- Get the latest 8.5 source from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10894
- tar zxf tcl8.5.7-src.tar.gz
- mv *.gz /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
- cd tcl8.5.7
- cd unix
- mv tcl.spec tcl.spec.orig
- wget http://ns0.skralg.com/eggdrop/tcl8.5-nothreads/RHEL5/tcl.spec
- edit tcl.spec
- %define majorver 8.5
- (should be 8.5, that's from our source version, 8.5.7)
- Version: %{majorver}.7
- (.7 at the end, that's from our source version, 8.5.7)
- Release: 2
- (Not so important, if you really want to make it match the source, grab the release number from tcl.spec.orig. In this case, it's 2 anyway: 8.5.7-2)
- %define majorver 8.5
- cd ..
- rpmbuild -bb unix/tcl.spec
- cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/
- rpm -Uvh tcl-8.5.2-2.i386.rpm tcl-devel-8.5.2-2.i386.rpm tcl-html-8.5.2-2.i386.rpm
Instead of doing that yourself, you could download the RPMs here: RHEL5/CentOS5 or Fedora Core 9 and rpm -Uvh them yourself.
- Note on FC9: I had to 'rm -rf /usr/lib/tcl8.5' after 'rpm -e tcl' before the new RPM would install.
If you don't trust the files I've built, build them yourself, it shouldn't be that hard.
Archlinux
cp -r /var/abs/extra/tcl . cd tcl nano PKGBUILD (delete --enable-threads) makepkg pacman -U tcl-8.5.2-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
