[Gcl-devel] Building gcl on solaris

[Raymond Toy]

I tried building gcl (cvs) on solaris for the first time in a long time. 
 It didn't go so well.  There are a couple of issues.

The first is that configure's use of awk uses things that don't exist in 
the basic awk on Solaris.  You need to use nawk (or maybe gawk).  I 
think configure checks for this, but doesn't do the right thing to 
select nawk and use it.  I worked around this by defining the envvar 
AWK=nawk.

Second, configure uses grep with the -q option, which isn't supported. 
I manually replaced grep -q with /usr/xpg4/bin/grep -q.  Perhaps 
configure should check to see if /usr/xpg4/bin/grep exists and use that.


With these changes, I can at least configure on solaris and get make to 
start building gcl.  The build eventually fails because it couldn't 
figure out where libbfd really is and uses /usr/lib/libbfd.a.

Am I doing something wrong?  Shouldn't this work?

Ray