Hahah, thanks all. I had no idea just how old that server was. It's a
university system, so I'm not too surprised. I don't quite understand how
CF9 can run on a machine that old but hey, that's not my issue.

I'm gonna give up on that idea for now, and simply go to a simpler way of
putting my fossil online.

If this isn't a face-palm moment, I don't know what is...

Tomek

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Stephan Beal <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Tomek Kott <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Sorry, I wasn't clear. I have cygwin, make gcc, etc. installed, but I
>> don't know how to *cross*-compile from my x64 / x86 machines for a sparc /
>> sunOS architecture. I'm afraid "tar -xzf ***, cd ***, configure, make" is
>> about all I know of compiling from source. If I understood a previous
>> discussion surrounding a new 'autoconf / automake / auto-something' then I
>> should be able to do it, I just don't know how.
>>
>
>
> Getting _anything_ to cross-compile for a system that old is certainly
> going to be a real chore, and i think i can safely say that nobody here has
> access to a machine that old to try it out on. i would recommend poking
> around one of the Solaris newsgroups (if there are any - in my experience
> SUN keeps any and all useful documentation under lock and key) and asking
> some of the SUN^H^H^HOracle gurus. But even then i would be surprised if
> anyone has a 2.1 box still running. It was end-of-life'd 12(!) years ago.
>
> It would surprise me if the new build tools (TCL-based) will
> bootstrap/compile on 2.1.
>
> But good luck...
>
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