Hello, I've been trying to get fossil to build using the auto-configurator on Solaris/sparc 9, and have encountered some minor bumps in the road.
For the record (in case someone finds this via a web search): I think there's something odd about the openssl detection. I had built openssl without the "shared" option (so I only had the shared libraries). But even with "configure --static" (in fossil), I ran into linking problems. Building openssl with the "shared" option made those problems go away. I haven't looked into it more closely, as the workaround is trivial, and I think most people will have the shared libraries laying around anyway. Now there are just two issues remaining, and unfortunately I'm not quite sure what to do about them. 1) The SunStudio compiler doesn't support -static; it uses -Bstatic and -Bdynamic. 2) While zlib is a system library on Solaris 9, it doesn't appear to have libz.a (only libz.so). This means that the final link line needs to look something like this: [...] -Bdynamic -L/opt/openssl-1.0.0g/lib -lz -ldl -Bstatic -lssl -lcrypto -lnsl -lsocket My Tcl-Fu is painfully limited and hence I understand near-zero of autosetup, but as far as I can gather the current autosetup/auto.def isn't really designed to handle compiler differences and mix static and dynamic linking? What I would like to do: 1) Add compiler detection (In this case: find sunstudio, default to whatever gcc does) 2) Set dynamic/static link flags (-static vs -Bstatic, etc) depending on compiler 3) Introduce a DLIBS which will unconditionally be dynamically linked, regardless of whether --static is used or not. I realize there's something conceptually very wrong about dynamically linking when it was explicitly requested by the users that static linking be used. At the same time, the way I look at it, the project should build and run on standard OS installations, with as few separate dependencies as possible. Input is welcome. -- Kind regards, Jan Danielsson _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
