Full_Name: Bert Cliche Version: 1.1.2 OS: Solaris x86 v2.6 URL: Submission from: (NULL) (169.132.99.31) I had many problems with the installation for Solaris on Intel, from the configure script to the actual build. I found a couple of answers for config overrides -- but I do not think that it should be so difficult. Please adjust the installation script so that it can properly build on solaris on intel (Solaris x86).
At 10:42 PM 1/18/99 GMT, studio4d@idt.net wrote: >I had many problems with the installation for Solaris on >Intel, from the configure script to the actual build. >I found >a couple of answers for config overrides -- but I do not >think that it should be so difficult. Neither do I. However, Sun is making it extermely difficult to support Solaris without user intervention. Putting a pthread_create in -lc is bad enought, but they also put pthread_t in <sys/types.h>. The latter makes it extremely difficult to use a 3rd party threading library. >Please adjust the installation script so that it can >properly build on solaris on intel (Solaris x86). This is difficult to do without making platform specific assumptions AND without restriction use of third party libraries (-lpthread and/or -lc). I would much rather have configure complain about brain damaged environments than attempt to make sense from such... especially when doing so might cause problems on well implemented environments. As such, I will implement additional checks to detect brain damaged environments but will continue to require users intervention to sort out the problems. Please feel free to submit specific suggestions and/or patches. Kurt
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No specific suggestion. Closed.