Mark Beall wrote:
>
> >Hi George,
> >Since you have the native Sun compilers, I'd suggest you use
> >them rather than gcc (if config isn't checking for this, it
> >probably should). It looks like gcc isn't really happy with
> >Sun's headers. You should be able to force configure to
> >use the compiler you want by seting the environment variable
> >CXX (someone correct me if I'm wrong and DX's configure
> >wants something else) to the right one (e.g. setenv CXX CC) and
> >then cleaning and reconfiguring.
> >
>
My experience under Solaris 2.6 (SonOS5.6) with OpenDX 4.1.0 has
been that you need to use (at least) gmake to get beyond compilation in
uipp/java as has been mentioned in this forum before. I've used gcc
V2.8.1 to install and did so because I ran into trouble early on with
the native C compiler and would have seen more trouble since I don't
have Solaris C++ available.
Anyway, before configuring, I only had to make sure my SHELL
environment variable was set to something besides /bin/csh. On my
platform, however, gcc is in my default path *and* c++ is a link to g++
so you may want to set CC and CXX for safety's sake. Other environment
variables may need work including CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, LDFLAGS, etc. as has
been mentioned over this forum before. In any case, the Solaris build
condensed to the following steps for me ...
setenv SHELL /bin/csh
./configure --prefix=whereiwantedopendxinstalled
gmake >& make.log &
.
. (Do something else while I 'tail make.log' occasionally)
.
gmake install
setenv DXROOT whereiwantopendxinstalled/dx
.
. (Installed samples in whereiwantopendxinstalled/dx/samples)
. (i.e. repeat the above up to 'gmake install' from the top of
. the dx-samples-4.0 directory)
.
setenv DXDATA $DXROOT/samples/data
.
. (Set up your path and try it out ...)
.
My version of Solaris C is 4.2. As I said before, I didn't give it
a serious try. Once you have the basic routine down for gmake/gcc/g++,
however, things seem to run very smoothly, at least if you're on my
platform :-).
Hope this helps,
Hope it wasn't overkill,
Phil
P. A. Cheeseman
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