[rdesktop-devel] Re: [rdesktop-users] rdesktop 1.2.0 on Solaris 8

[Christopher O. <ode...@hn...>]

Hi,

> 1. configure is built from M4. You probably don't want to patch it
> directly.

Oh, I didn't know that. Then patch the M4 file.

> 2. what shell are you using?

tcsh

> 3. can you put these lines above your compiler test?
>
> which $compiler > /tmp/foo
> echo $? >> /tmp/foo

Of course:

odenbach@pooh[rdesktop-1.2.0]>>m /tmp/foo=20
Loading standard modules...done.
Loading personal modules from ~/.modulefiles ... done.
Loading additional modules from ~/.modulefilesrc openwin X11 gnu rb=20
done.
/usr/local/gnu/bin/gcc
0

The output "Loading modules..." comes from the .cshrc:

odenbach@pooh[rdesktop-1.2.0]>>tcsh
Loading standard modules...done.
Loading personal modules from ~/.modulefiles ... done.
Loading additional modules from ~/.modulefilesrc openwin X11 gnu rb=20
done.


This outout should only be printed if the shell is interactive:

[...]
if ( $?prompt ) then
        echo -n "Loading standard modules..."
[...]



> attach to an email response. Something is very fishy there. I'd
> rather use "which $compiler | tail -1" -- but I'd rather still see
> the exact output. Building on Solaris 7, Solaris 8, and Solaris 9 at
> my location has generated no such problems.

Depends on your .cshrc. The trouble is that you can't force people to=20
take these prints out of their .cshrc. At our institute every user=20
.cshrc includes a global cshrc which does this printing.

> 4. compiling and linking are two separate things. If I want to build
> a Makefile for a system that I'm _not_ running configure on, then I
> will not be able to even "run" the compiler.

I don't agree. The configure step usually prepares the Makefile and=20
perhaps a header-file, so that the source can be compiled just on that=20
machine.

If you have a gcc in your path (which is what you test with 'which'),=20
it should be executable.

Regards,

Christopher

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