Building a tailored SpecTcl

	Building a tailored SpecTcl

The files you copied from the $SPECTCLHOME/Skel directory include a Makefile. The Makefile defines the following macros which can be used to make your code system independent:

Symbol	Meaning
OS	The operating system under which the compilation is being done. On most systems, the uname(1) command will return the textual value of this macro. The compilation command used by the Makefile includes a -D$(OS) which allows #ifdef's on particular system types. The current likely values are: Linux - Linux operating system OSF1 COMPAQ Tru-64 UNIX.
INSTDIR	The home of the SpecTcl installation tree. The compilation commands all include a -DINSTALLED_IN='"$(INSTDIR)"' which allow you to reference files in the SpecTcl installation directory. SpecTcl uses this to provide a TCL/TK variable called SpecTclHome which contains this information for scripts.

If you have added modules to your customized version of SpecTcl, be sure to edit Makefile to reflect this. Build your customized version of SpecTcl with the command:

If you move your files to another system, you may need to edit this makefile appropriately to be sure that the OS and INSTDIR symbols are correct. Look at the Makefile in that system's ..../Skel directory, or alternatively, if you are using an unodified Makefile, just copy it again.