Re: [tcljava-user] Building on Solaris x86?

[Mo D. <md...@cy...>]

On Tue, 22 May 2001, Marty Backe wrote:

> Has anyone successfully built TclBlend on Solaris 8 for Intel. I tried
> both the 1.2.6 release and the latest cvs release, but it appears
> severely broken.

Do you mean that the build is broken or that the .so it creates
is broken? I have no doubt you are going to run into build problems
since I doubt anyone has ever tried it on x86 Solaris.

> At work this is not a problem since it builds fine on
> Sparc Solaris, but I do work from home periodically, where I use my
> Intel Solaris 8 server. Usually I have no problems building software on
> either platform.
>
> I determined at least one fix for 1.2.6, but I don't see any reason for
> submitting a bug fix since the build process for the latest cvs is
> substantially different. Is this a true assumption. Are build related
> bug fixes for 1.2.6 of any interest?

If you need to make changes to the build process, you should grab
the CVS version. The 1.2 branch is not really worked on anymore.

Mo DeJong
Red Hat Inc