Help with AKCL 1.79 on SPARC

[segre@cs.cornell.edu (Alberto M. Segre)]

We are currently trying to compile AKCL, version 79, on the Sun 4.

We already have AKCL compiled and working on the Sun 3, the Sun 4 is
giving us compilation errors.

The most noticable problem is the following:

The embedded make in the unixport directory returns the following 
error message during compilation:
	undefined: _fasload
	           _build_symbol_table

The make, however, is successful and gives no error message if called
a second time.

Thus, it seems that AKCL is compiled for the Sun 4 but once I attempt
to invoke AKCL with xbin/kcl, I get this error:
        <my akcl directory>/unixport/saved_kcl: not found

And, indeed, there is no such file name saved_kcl.  I also notice that
raw_kcl is not executable (and gives an ILLEGAL INSTRUCTION error if
I change permissions to make it executable).

The only changes that we made were the following:
   - we edited the various makefiles, commenting out values for RSYM
     SFASL, and INITFORM (as suggested, once we had problems compiling).
   - we commented out those commands beneath "if you are wfs on rascal"
     in unixport/makefile.  I assumed that the entire indented block of
     commands were not to be executed.
   - removed the -B flag called for cc in various makefiles (cc on the
     Sun 4 does not support this option flag)

Has anyone compiled this version of AKCL successfully on the Sun 4 yet?
If so, is there a set of patches to help us out?

Any suggestions??

Thanks!  We'd appreciate any guidance you could give us.

-alberto

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Alberto Segre
Assistant Professor
Cornell University
Department of Computer Science
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