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1. Scilab on Solaris 10

This has been tested with Scilab 4.0 & 4.1. Scilab has been compiled and installed on a solaris machine opteron-based (Sun V40z, quadri proc).

Solaris OS is no longer supported by the Scilab Consortium.

Requirements :

The list of packages to be installed:

1.1. Installation of mandatory packages

Pcre is not used in Scilab 4.X, but is mandatory in Scilab 5.

1.2. Compilation of Scilab 4.X

./configure \
--with-tcl-include=/opt/csw/include --with-tcl-library=/opt/csw/lib \
--with-tk-include=/opt/csw/include --with-tk-library=/opt/csw/lib \
--without-pvm \
--prefix=/usr/local \
CC=cc \
CXX=CC \
F77=f77 \
LDFLAGS="-R/opt/csw/lib"

then modify Makefile.incl:

CC_LDFLAGS =  -R/opt/csw/lib
FC_LDFLAGS = -R/opt/csw/lib
LD_LDFLAGS = -R/opt/csw/lib
TCLTK_LIBS =  -L/opt/csw/lib  -R/opt/csw/lib -ltk8.4   -L/opt/csw/lib -R/opt/csw/lib -ltcl8.4  -ldl

in routines/scicos/evaluate_expr.c

--- /tmp/scilab-4.1/routines/scicos/evaluate_expr.c     2005-09-23 14:28:00.000000000 +0200
+++ routines/scicos/evaluate_expr.c     2007-01-08 13:30:27.179476000 +0100
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 #if defined(solaris)
 #include <ieeefp.h>
+#undef isinf
 int isinf(double x) { return !finite(x) && x==x; }
 #endif
 #if defined(__alpha)

--- /tmp/scilab-4.1/scripts/scilab.g.in 2006-12-06 14:42:42.000000000 +0100
+++ scripts/scilab.g.in 2007-01-08 17:57:32.370783000 +0100
@@ -155,12 +155,12 @@
           Postscript-Latex)
                 wantedEpsName=$2.eps
-                newEps=$(echo $2 | cut -d . -f1).eps
+                newEps=`echo $2 | cut -d . -f1`.eps
                 # move the file in case BEpsf will destroy it
                 mv $newEps $newEps.scilab.temp 1> /dev/null  2>&1
                 wantedTexName=$2.tex
-                newTex=$(echo $2 | cut -d . -f1).tex # get the name created by Blatexpr
+                newTex=`echo $2 | cut -d . -f1`.tex # get the name created by Blatexpr
                 # move the file in case BEpsf will destroy it
                 mv $newTex $newTex.scilab.temp 1> /dev/null  2>&1

(But it's not sufficient, because a few errors persist)

/local/henry/scilab-4.1/bin/scilab: syntax error at line 158: `newEps=$' unexpected

And you have to modify also this file, and scripts/scilab.g to succeed.

Solution is given on comp.soft-sys.math.scilab: "bin/scilab file is generated by script/Makefile using script/scilab.g file and script/scilab.g is generated by configure using. So you need to execute configure again followed by make all..."

Here, you can do make:

make all | & tee MAKE.LOG

Before installing, verify that these GNU tools mandatory are in your path: "find install make tar xargs"

make -k install |& tee INSTALL.LOG

without -k, make failed because there is no disclean target in examples/mex-examples/cmex/ (no Makefile indeed)

The original text is available here : http://www.latp.univ-mrs.fr/~henry/doku.php?id=scilab.

2. FAQ

* When make is linking everything at the end, I get : {{{f90_dfr_ch /export/home/sylvestr/scilab/modules/io/.libs/libsciio.so f90_dfr_r8 /export/home/sylvestr/scilab/modules/io/.libs/libsciio.so f95_error_message_and_abort /export/home/sylvestr/scilab/modules/io/.libs/libsciio.so f90_open_access_f77compat /export/home/sylvestr/scilab/modules/core/.libs/libscicore.so anint /export/home/sylvestr/scilab/modules/elementaries_functions/.libs/libscielementaries_functions.so nintf /export/home/sylvestr/scilab/libs/lapack/.libs/libscilapack.so z_abs /export/home/sylvestr/scilab/modules/linear_algebra/.libs/libscilinear_algebra.so z_exp /export/home/sylvestr/scilab/modules/arnoldi/.libs/libsciarnoldi.so }}} It is because the linking if badly made. It should be done by the fortran compiler and not cc. An other solution would be to add the fortran lib. (need further investigations)

3. Other links

http://iremia.univ-reunion.fr/intranet/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=ScilabSolaris

Sun Solaris 8 under Sparc


2022-09-08 09:27