Re: Does Dia support Solaris 2.6?

["Andrew S . Halper" <ashalper usgs gov>]

On 2001.06.14 23:53 Sheng-Liang Liu wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I tried to compile dia 0.88.1 on my Ultra5 workstation running Solaris
> 2.6.  Unfortunately, I always had problems when I was doing "make".  It
> was okay whe I ran "configure", but when I tried to "make", near the
> end of the process it told me "argz.h is missing".
>
> I noticed that argz.h is a part of glibc 2.x, which only supports Linux
> right now.  Does it mean that I need to have Linux to run Dia?  I spent
> quite some time to download Glib, GTK, Libxml, and GDK-Pixbuf just
> because I wanted to try Dia.  If it doesn't support Solaris, why
> there's no warning before people download it?

I am interested in a Solaris port too, and ran into the same problem.  Does the
dependency on glibc mean Dia can only be ported to these platforms:

http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/porting.html

or is there some Autoconf trick to tell the make to use the Solaris C library
instead?

Thanks,
Andy