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a few Solaris-related patches for PROBLEMS
From: |
Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
a few Solaris-related patches for PROBLEMS |
Date: |
Tue, 25 May 2004 11:48:30 -0700 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
Here are a few updates to the groff PROBLEMS file for Solaris.
2004-05-25 Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
* PROBLEMS: Update documentation for problems with Sun C++ 5.0
through Forte 6u1, and for how to get GNU make on Solaris.
--- PROBLEMS.~1.22.~ 2004-05-25 11:19:31 -0700
+++ PROBLEMS 2004-05-25 11:35:44 -0700
@@ -818,8 +818,11 @@ argument is a const char *. Fix the dec
This occurs because GNU make and Unix make handle VPATH differently,
and the groff build relies on GNU make's VPATH handling.
-Use GNU make to work around the problem. In Solaris 8, GNU make is
-on the Software Companion CD and is installed as /opt/sfw/bin/gmake.
+Use GNU make <http://www.gnu.org/software/make/> to work around this.
+In Solaris 8 and 9, GNU make is on the Software Companion CD in
+package SFWgmake and is installed as /opt/sfw/bin/gmake. Prebuilt
+versions of GNU make for Solaris are also available from
+sunfreeware.com.
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@@ -894,11 +897,11 @@ directory and include that directory wit
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-* I get errors when I try to compile groff with Sun C++ version 5.0
- or 5.1.
+* I get errors when I try to compile groff with Forte Development 6
+ or 6u1, or Sun C++ version 5.0 through 5.2.
-This is a known problem; see Sun bug #4301919. As of this writing, no
-patch is available. Use GCC 2.95.2 or later instead.
+This is a known problem; see Sun bug #4301919. See Sun patches
+109482, 109490, 109508, and 109509 for fixes.
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- a few Solaris-related patches for PROBLEMS,
Paul Eggert <=