Re: Compiling on Solaris 8

[Paul Johnson]

address@hidden wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am trying to compile a recent snapshot of swarm (swarm-2002-03-09) on
> solaris 8. 
>
> As a first test I tried to build is with the same software set that I
> used in the succesfully build of snapshot swarm-2001-04-02 (gcc-2.95.2,
> j2sdk1_3_0, tcl/tk-8.3.2, etc.). The first test failed, and the
> occurence of "depmode=gcc3" on the failing line inspired me to do a
> second test with gcc-3.0. This test failed too, most likely due to the
> fact that our gcc-3.0 uses /usr/ccs/bin/ld as opposed to the gnu ld.
There is a patch for gcc-3.0.1 and after that you should apply to gcc 
before you build it. I yesterday put a copy of it here, with these rpms 
I built:

http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/software/gcc-upgrades/3.0.4RH72/Marcus_objc_gcc301.patch

In case you are not reading the least, yesterday I complained on and on 
that rebuiliding gcc-3.0.4 was complicated by the edition of 
automake/autoconf I had in place, but eventually it did work for me.
> Before I try any further I would like to ask is there exists an up to
> date list of needed software for succesfully compiling swarm-2002-03-09?
Sorry, don't know about Solaris.
> A second question is about the version numbering of swarm. Our users 
> asked me to upgrade to swarm-2.2. After some searching, all I could 
> find was a link to:
> http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/\
> Swarm-2.2x_RPMSforRH7.2/swarm-2.1.131.20020206-1.src.rpm
>       ^^^                     ^^^^  
> which indeed contains swarm-2.1.131.20020206.tar.gz.
That is the same as Marcus's release swarm-2002-02-06.tar.gz.  I 
repackage those because I need RedHat style version numbers.

> I concluded that this was most likely one of the snapshots and got
> myself the newest from ftp://ftp.swarm.org/pub/swarm/src/testing/.
> Am I correct that this is also called swarm-2.2 or did I fail to find
> the right source?
If you open up that package, read the VERSION file.  The swarm-2.2 
pretest snapshots, the ones I'm calling swarm-2.2x, are the ones that 
have high 2.1 version numbers. Now we are on 2.1.132.

> Gert



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