[java-gnome-hackers] Building on Solaris

[Andrew C. <an...@op...>]

It seems that people on Open Solaris do a lot of ad-hoc custom
environment setup there to make up for lack of a file system standard
and chaotic and conflicting package installations. Ouch.

Based on initial comments from Kamil Szymala, I started a branch which
lets people who have installed GCC on a Solaris box have it picked in
preference, and sorted out a few assumptions that were getting in the
way of doing that.

After initial contact from him, however, I didn't get any corrections to
the branch, so I'm not sure if it's actually ok or not.

It's branch 'build-solaris'. I will merge it to 'mainline' this weekend
if no one comments further as it seems to be an improvement for that
environment, and it will be in 4.0.10-rc3 (to be out shortly). Anyone
who is running on Solaris may want to test first.

Patch bundles further improving matters there are welcome.

AfC
Sydney