Rainer Orth wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
... which would be a nightmare if you regularly had to build them from
source just to be able to build ON. SFW alone takes about as long to
compile as ON, and (unlike ON) requires a 64-bit machine to build.
When we started with the Solaris 64 bit builds, you needed to
set an environment variable "WYOMING_TOOLS" to point to a linker
capable of building 64 bit binaries. Later you could just point it
to the installed tools.
Unfortunately, fixing this (CR 6401063) is hard since in general autoconf
tests require that test binaries can run on the build machine. Everything
else is handled as cross-compilation, which isn't well supported by most
packages. I've done a couple of fixes to avoid the build failures where
possible, but didn't yet get around to submitting them.
I have a fix for 6401063 which isn't much but does indeed trick
autoconf into doing cross compilation. It seems to work but I've
been very afraid of breaking things so I haven't put it back yet.
Particularly since I hadn't seen many folks complaining about it,
so it seemed better to spend time on fixing other problems in sfw :)
Mike
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