Scott Cantor wrote:
> My initial attempt to configure the RC1 build on Solaris 8 (sparc) isn't
> working...I'm getting an empty Makefile when I configure with the Sun
> compiler. I think it's actually echoing the generated Makefile to stdout
> instead of into the file. I'll try it some more, it might just be this box.
>
> It's mostly working on Solaris 10 (x86).
>
> I did spot one minor issue that I've seen before so I'll mention it
> now...the OpenSSL library checks only work if libcrypto is in the
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH. If it's in a non-standard place, the AC_CHECK_LIB macro is
> building a CC test command with -lcrypto ahead of the -L${OPENSSL} flag, so
> it doesn't find the library.
I'll switch these around. I don't have access to a Sol 8 box, so it's
going to be tricky for me to replicate the probolem on that system :<.
>
> It's not unusual to need LD_LIBRARY_PATH set with a lot of packages, but it
> shouldn't technically be required just to configure and build if things are
> scripted correctly.
>
> Other than that, the long-standing Solaris problems with install-sh still
> exist. I think that the root cause of this is the fact that you're not using
> automake, which seems to do the right thing for 'make install' on more
> platforms. Not sure this is easily fixable with the current makefiles but it
> does make life hard on Solaris for novices.
Yes. One of the things on my list for 1.4 is to move to automake. I've
been using it for some other stuff I've been doing so I've finally had
to make time to get my head around it. So if you can bear with me for
one more release, the move to automake *will* fix this.
Cheers,
Berin
