I've read and heard that Tcl is, for the most part, supposed to compile
directly "out of the box."  I've compiled a few things, but nothing has
produced more errors than Tcl!  
        Using the tcl7.4b2 distribution, Solaris 2.4, and gcc 2.6.3, I
get several warnings during the compile complaining about declarations in
sys/types.h, stdio.h, and math.h.  After a few minutes of that, I gives
up and barfs out

"tclMtherr.c:49: redefinition of `struct exception'"

which is a new one for me.  Incidentally, I get near the same results in
the Sunpro compiler.

Any suggestions?

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   I've built Tcl and Tk for  Solaris 2.3 on Sparc and Solaris
2.4 on X86.  For X86 it did compile right out of the box, for Sparc it
took a little minor tweeking of a couple of the headers files and
changing an instance of getwd to getcwd.  

   both seem to work quite nicely.  I can put the binaries up for ftp
somewhere if someone wants them.

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: I've read and heard that Tcl is, for the most part, supposed to compile
: directly "out of the box."  I've compiled a few things, but nothing has
: produced more errors than Tcl!  
:       Using the tcl7.4b2 distribution, Solaris 2.4, and gcc 2.6.3, I
: get several warnings during the compile complaining about declarations in
: sys/types.h, stdio.h, and math.h.  After a few minutes of that, I gives
: up and barfs out

: "tclMtherr.c:49: redefinition of `struct exception'"

: which is a new one for me.  Incidentally, I get near the same results in
: the Sunpro compiler.

: Any suggestions?

I don't recall exactly, but I had little to no problems compiling tcl7.4b1
& tk4.0b1 under Solaris 2.4 on a Sparc 10.  I'm using the Sunpro compilers.
Maybe the configure script didn't correctly autodetect your system layout?

Tom