Re: [Help-smalltalk] GST on Solaris 8

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 02/24/2010 10:38 PM, Rick Flower wrote:
> 1) configure script does not detect nanosleep() -- likely because
>     it resides in librt.so on Solaris (requiring the user to add
>     "-lrt" to the LIBS line in the Makefile(s).  The side effect
>     of this is that the process test (when doing a 'make check' will
>     hang indefinately because it uses usleep() which apparently
>     has issues on Solaris 8.

Fixed in git.

> 2) On Solaris 8 (not sure about 10), trunc(), truncf(), truncl(),
>     lrint(), lrintf(), powl() are all missing -- this causes problems
>     when building prims.def or prims.inl.  For now I've removed the
>     offending function references in prims.def/inl which causes
>     floating point operations to dump core with a stack overflow..
>     Perhaps not a good fix..:(

truncl and powl should be replaced already, I added replacements for the 
others.

> 3) On Solaris 8, when building lib-src/sincosl.c, gcc (different
>     versions) complain about how sincosl_table is defined.  It is
>     defined as a static at the top of the file and then there's
>     some code referencing it in the middle of that file and at the
>     end of the file is the initialization array for it.. I moved the
>     initialization to the top and used only one declaration.. Not
>     sure if that's good or bad.

It's good, I did the same.

I'll push the changes shortly to the git repository.

Paolo