For Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic), you may encounter this error in the linking of otcl:

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otcl.o: In function `OTclDispatch':
/home/ns/ns-allinone-2.34/otcl/otcl.c:495: undefined reference to `__stack_chk_fail_local'
otcl.o: In function `Otcl_Init':
/home/ns/ns-allinone-2.34/otcl/otcl.c:2284: undefined reference to `__stack_chk_fail_local'
ld: libotcl.so: hidden symbol `__stack_chk_fail_local' isn't defined
ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output
make: *** [libotcl.so] Error 1
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This error is because the linker being used is "ld -shared" instead of "gcc -shared". If you edit one line in otcl-1.13/configure, and rerun install, it should work:

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--- configure.orig 2009-11-02 12:14:52.556167945 -0800
+++ configure 2009-11-02 12:17:28.966706099 -0800
@@ -6301,7 +6301,7 @@
;;
Linux*)
SHLIB_CFLAGS="-fpic"
- SHLIB_LD="ld -shared"
+ SHLIB_LD="gcc -shared"
SHLIB_SUFFIX=".so"
DL_LIBS="-ldl"
SHLD_FLAGS=""
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