There are some problem on the scripting of configure. Mostly due to the
back-tick characters. When I was installing ns-2.29, I did some debug to
go thou' this.
science wrote:
>I tried to install ns-allinone-2.29 on FreeBSD 6.1.
>
>After typing "./install" at /usr/local/src/ns-allinone-2.29,
>I get the following errors.
>
>Would you please give me some help?
>
>
>hecking Tcl http.tcl library... yes
>checking for tclsh8.4.11... no
>checking for tclsh8.4... ../bin/tclsh8.4
>checking for tk.h... -I../include
>checking for libtk8.4... -L../lib -ltk8.4
>checking for tk.tcl... ../lib/tk8.4
>checking for X11 header files
>checking for X11 library archive
>checking for XOpenDisplay in -lX11... no
>checking for libXext.a
>checking for ranlib... ranlib
>checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
>checking system version (for dynamic loading)... ./configure: line 6018:
>syntax
>error near unexpected token `('
>./configure: line 6018: ` case `(ac_space=' '; set | grep ac_space)
>2>&1` in'
>otcl-1.11 configuration failed! Exiting ...
>Please check http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/ns-problems.html
>for common problems and bug fixes.
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