[htdig-dev] configuration failed on Solaris 2.8

[Ziying S. <sh...@lh...>]

Dear Collegauges,

We are trying to install htdig 3.2.0b3 on our SPARC/Solaris 2.8 platform using 
gcc 3.3.  However, the configuration failed with the following error message:
We have repeatedly tried to find others who have successfully built htdig from 
source on our platform, but have found no one.  We also filed a bug report at:

   http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=4593

but still did not get any response.  This is a final summary of our problem, 
sent out as one last effort to find help and warn others who may be 
contemplating the same effort.  A description of the problem follows.

Best Regards,
Ziying Sherwin (sh...@nl...)
Rick Rodgers (ro...@nl...)

SUMMARY

While compiling htdig 3.2.0b3 on Solaris 2.8 using gcc 3.3, we observe the 
following error message:

[...copious similar material deleted here...]
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a
cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for ld used by GCC... (cached) /usr/ccs/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/ccs/bin/ld) is GNU ld...
(cached) no
checking for BSD-compatible nm... (cached)
/usr/ccs/bin/nm -p
checking whether ln -s works... (cached) yes
loading cache ./config.cache within ltconfig
ltconfig: you must specify a host type if you use
                      `--no-verify'
Try `ltconfig --help' for more information.
configure: error: libtool configure failed

We already specified the host type in the configuration option by:

setenv CPPFLAGS "-Wno-deprecated"
setenv CXXFLAGS "-Wno-deprecated"
setenv CFLAGS "-O2 -I/depot/package/gcc_3.3/include/c++/3.3/backward"
setenv LDFLAGS "-L/depot/package/gcc_3.3/lib"
./configure \
--prefix=/depot/package/htdig_3.2.0b3 \
--with-config-dir=/depot/package/htdig_3.2.0b3/conf \
--with-common-dir=/depot/package/htdig_3.2.0b3/share \
--with-database-dir=/var/htdig_3.2.0b3/data \
--with-cgi-bin-dir=/depot/package/htdig_3.2.0b3/cgi-bin \
--with-image-dir=/depot/package/htdig_3.2.0b3/image \
--with-search-dir=/depot/package/apache_2.0.46/htdocs/web_kit/htdig \
--with-zlib=/depot/package/zlib_1.1.4 \
--enable-bigfile \
--host=solaris2.8