Re: Compiling on Solaris 8

[gert]

On 14 Mar, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
>>>>>> "GH" == gert  <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> GH> The first test failed, and the occurence of "depmode=gcc3" on the
> GH> failing line inspired me to do a second test with gcc-3.0. This
> GH> test failed too, most likely due to the fact that our gcc-3.0 uses
> GH> /usr/ccs/bin/ld as opposed to the gnu ld.
> 
> In order to get working shared libraries (of Swarm) you will need GCC
> configured to use GNU binutils.  Patch GCC as indicated by Paul..
> 
> ./configure --with-gnu-as --with-as=/packages/development/gcc/bin/as
> --with-gnu-ld --with-ld=/packages/development/gcc/bin/ld
> 

I know from previous experience, that I need a special gcc (using the 
gnu binutils) to get a working swarm library. I am in the process of
compiling a patched version of gcc-3.0.4 right now. My question was 
for a more general list of needed software, like the one on
ftp:/pub/swarm/src/needed, but more up to date for the snapshot
versions. 

Also from previous experience I know that swarm can be picky about the
versions of a lot of other software. It would be very helpfull to know
the requirements in advance. As ftp:/pub/swarm/src/needed and the
INSTALL (Aug 27  1999) file are not realy usefull for this purpose, I
was wondering if there exists more recent documentation. 

If not, are there more packages, besides gcc, that need newer versions
then the ones I used for compiling swarm-2001-04-02? 

I was planning to use Suns j2sdk1.4.0 instead of j2sdk1.3.0, do you know
of any problems with that?

Gert

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