bug-groff
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

a few Solaris-related patches for PROBLEMS


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: a few Solaris-related patches for PROBLEMS
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 11:48:30 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux)

Here are a few updates to the groff PROBLEMS file for Solaris.

2004-05-25  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>

        * PROBLEMS: Update documentation for problems with Sun C++ 5.0
        through Forte 6u1, and for how to get GNU make on Solaris.

--- PROBLEMS.~1.22.~    2004-05-25 11:19:31 -0700
+++ PROBLEMS    2004-05-25 11:35:44 -0700
@@ -818,8 +818,11 @@ argument is a const char *.  Fix the dec
 This occurs because GNU make and Unix make handle VPATH differently,
 and the groff build relies on GNU make's VPATH handling.
 
-Use GNU make to work around the problem.  In Solaris 8, GNU make is
-on the Software Companion CD and is installed as /opt/sfw/bin/gmake.
+Use GNU make <http://www.gnu.org/software/make/> to work around this.
+In Solaris 8 and 9, GNU make is on the Software Companion CD in
+package SFWgmake and is installed as /opt/sfw/bin/gmake.  Prebuilt
+versions of GNU make for Solaris are also available from
+sunfreeware.com.
 
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -894,11 +897,11 @@ directory and include that directory wit
 
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-* I get errors when I try to compile groff with Sun C++ version 5.0
-  or 5.1.
+* I get errors when I try to compile groff with Forte Development 6
+  or 6u1, or Sun C++ version 5.0 through 5.2.
 
-This is a known problem; see Sun bug #4301919.  As of this writing, no
-patch is available.  Use GCC 2.95.2 or later instead.
+This is a known problem; see Sun bug #4301919.  See Sun patches
+109482, 109490, 109508, and 109509 for fixes.
 
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 




reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]