Martin Bochnig wrote:
> Now that I was told that the SPARC part of the fox-gate might really be 
> used for something, 

I thought you already knew that we wanted to use it, which is why we'd
asked you to be part of the project - sorry if there was any confusion
there.

> I'm finally in the process of systematically paging through the entire 
> buildit-XW logfiles in all three of my current worspaces.
> And aha, some coffe powder and voila, the solution to the bash versus 
> Bourne /bin/sh problem with mesalibs (which normally weren't built under 
> SPARC before I enabled them).
> Q: I wonder if nobody ever got that problem under x86??

I probably did when I did the port, which is why the
sun-src/configs/solaris-x86-gcc-dri file includes a
SHELL = /bin/bash line.   (Though it's been almost a year
so I don't remember why exactly I inserted it.)

> As "-s" is actually much better test, than "-e", I added a patch to 
> /FOX/MERCURIAL_20070830thu/fox-gate__Aha_Testing__pre20070913thu/XW_NV/open-src/lib/mesa
>  which changes lines 

That should work too.

-- 
        -Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
         Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering


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