[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #54235] problems building Octave on Solaris

[Mike Miller]

Follow-up Comment #89, bug #54235 (project octave):

Rik - the two known problems that have not been addressed on Solaris in the hg
repo yet (in any branch) are

* The Solaris 'id' program does not support the -g and -u options, this is a
built-in Autoconf thing, Autoconf expects the user to have an 'id' program
that is POSIX compliant. The GNU id program is installed on Solaris as 'gid'
only. This can only be fixed by patching configure after running autoconf.

* GCC 4.9.2 on Solaris fails to build with "error: call of overloaded
‘abs(short int)’ is ambiguous" in pr-output.cc. I have asked for testing
with a newer version of GCC on Solaris since I think this may be a compiler /
system header problem that may be fixed in a newer version, but I don't know
whether that will fix it or not. I would rather not rename the private 'abs'
to something else if we don't have to.

The first just prints error messages to the console while configure is running
but is not a fatal error.

The second requires a local patch that I have given Michele since it is not
fixed in our source repository.

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