Error with "Make" in ns2.35
 

Hi LQ, I am using NS-2.35.

First I run make and I got the following error:

Makefile.in is newer than Makefile.
You need to re-run configure.
false
make: *** [Makefile] Error 1

Then I re-run configure by typing ./configure and I got this error:

checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking minix/config.h usability... no
checking minix/config.h presence... no
checking for minix/config.h... no
checking whether it is safe to define __EXTENSIONS__... yes
No .configure file found in current directory
Continuing with default options...
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
checking for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
checking for string.h... (cached) yes
checking for main in -lXbsd... no
checking for socket in -lsocket... no
checking for gethostbyname in -lnsl... yes
checking for dcgettext in -lintl... no
checking for getnodebyname in -ldnet_stub... no
checking that g++ can handle -O2... no
checking if C++ libraries work without any namespace... no
checking if C++ libraries work with namespace std... yes
checking if STL works without any namespace... no
checking if STL works with namespace std... yes
checking should use STL... yes
checking for tcl.h... -I../include
checking for tclInt.h... -I../include
checking for libtcl8.4... no
checking for init.tcl... ../lib/tcl8.5
checking for http.tcl... ../lib/tcl8.5/http1.0
checking Tcl http.tcl library... yes
checking for tclsh8.4.19... no
checking for tclsh8.4... /usr/bin/tclsh8.4
configure: error: Installation of tcl seems incomplete or can't be found automatically.
Please correct the problem by telling configure where tcl is
using the argument --with-tcl=/path/to/package
(perhaps after installing it),
or the package is not required, disable it with --with-tcl=no.

Can you please help me to fix it?

You cannot usually do $ ./configure in ns-allinone-2.35/ns-2.35/.
Reconfiguring was for ns-2.34, and earlier versions.
Now we just do $ cd ns-allinone-2.35/ && ./install

Thank you so much.

I run ./install and I got this:

Ns-allinone package has been installed successfully.
Here are the installation places:
tcl8.5.10: /home/mohameed/ns-allinone-2.35/{bin,include,lib}
tk8.5.10: /home/mohameed/ns-allinone-2.35/{bin,include,lib}
otcl: /home/mohameed/ns-allinone-2.35/otcl-1.14
tclcl: /home/mohameed/ns-allinone-2.35/tclcl-1.20
ns: /home/mohameed/ns-allinone-2.35/ns-2.35/ns
nam: /home/mohameed/ns-allinone-2.35/nam-1.15/nam
xgraph: /home/mohameed/ns-allinone-2.35/xgraph-12.2
gt-itm: /home/mohameed/ns-allinone-2.35/itm, edriver, sgb2alt, sgb2ns, sgb2comns, sgb2hierns

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Please put /home/mohameed/ns-allinone-2.35/bin:/home/mohameed/ns-allinone-2.35/tcl8.5.10/unix:/home/mohameed/ns-allinone-2.35/tk8.5.10/unix
into your PATH environment; so that you'll be able to run itm/tclsh/wish/xgraph.

IMPORTANT NOTICES:

(1) You MUST put /home/mohameed/ns-allinone-2.35/otcl-1.14, /home/mohameed/ns-allinone-2.35/lib,
into your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable.
If it complains about X libraries, add path to your X libraries
into LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
If you are using csh, you can set it like:
setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH <paths>
If you are using sh, you can set it like:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<paths>

(2) You MUST put /home/mohameed/ns-allinone-2.35/tcl8.5.10/library into your TCL_LIBRARY environmental
variable. Otherwise ns/nam will complain during startup.


After these steps, you can now run the ns validation suite with
cd ns-2.35; ./validate

For trouble shooting, please first read ns problems page
http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/ns-problems.html. Also search the ns mailing list archive
for related posts.

How can I complete these steps please?

Re #3

The text :
"Please put /home .. .. IMPORTANT NOTICES: (1) You MUST put /home/.."
.... was used ~15 years ago for a "University Computer" only.
I.e. you had no write permissions to /usr/.

Today we just do $ cd ns-allinone-2.35/ns-2.35/ && sudo make install
* 'make install' will copy the executable 'ns' to /usr/local/bin/.

And : 'ns' is hard coded to know the location of it`s libraries :
ns-allinone-2.35/{ lib/*, bin/* }.

Conclusion : Don't do anything. Except for # make install .

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Thank you so much, Knudfl.