Re: [Quilt-dev] Solaris support

[John Vandenberg]

On 4/20/07, Andreas Gruenbacher <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Friday 20 April 2007 01:55, John Vandenberg wrote:
> > Unless there are objections or better ideas, I'll draft an INSTALL
> > document for the various platforms I use quilt on.
>
> I would of course take such a text.

Ok.

> Not sure if it's a good idea to add some smartness to the configure script for
> common cases like Solaris, like checking for uname

uname will be fine, but its worth asking ... is AC_CANONICAL_HOST not
desirable ?  It does slow down the initial phase of configure.

> or even unconditionally
> extending $PATH -- the GNU packages are commonly in the same path all the
> time, right?

I was thinking along the same lines; yes, packages from
sunfreeware.com and the newer Companion CD
(http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/freeware/) can be found at
standard locations.  Also, if you're happy to take patches that go a
little overboard in dealing with Solaris, we can ensure that configure
degrades gracefully down to the Solaris /usr/xpg4  binaries where we
have already know that we support the Solaris binaries.

--
John