Solaris 8/X86 and Garnome

[Ben Taylor <highlander7 cox net>]

I'm attempting to build Garnome using garnome-0.21.0 for Solaris 8/X86.

These are the issues I've found so far:

1) had to replace tar with gtar (since Solaris doesn't grok the -C gtar 
option) in gar.lib.mk

2) had to replace md5sum with gmd5sum in gar.lib.mk since I was 
consistently getting
    checksum errors,  though for the life of me, when I manually do the 
checksum by hand it works.
    When I check the checksums by hand, and it still fails, I just 
touch the appropriate checksum-<file>
    in the directory and it goes on about it's business.  Could this be 
a shell issue?

3) Hacked in some support to Xrender to get it to compile and build in 
Garnome under Solaris.
    This is pretty green and grody stuff, but I was more intersted in 
gettng Garnome further down
     the config line.  Course, now I have to redo it because of a 
misplaced "gmake clean"

4) Manually had to patch the ot-scan.diff file in 
misc/fontconfig/work/fcpackage.2_1/fontconfig,
    and then had to go back a patch fccache.c and fcintl.h with the 
rejects.  It was a bit weird, because
    there was only one reject file (fccache.c.rej), but the rejects 
were from both fccache.c and fcintl.h.
    I suspect that this may be a bug with Sun's patch.  

5) had to replace make with gmake in the misc/freetype/Makefile so that 
it would build.
    A gmake flag made Solaris's make (/usr/ccs/bin/make) barf.

The gnu tools I'm using (from the www.blastwave.org archive) are:

gcc-2.95.3 (with Solaris linker /usr/ccs/bin/ld)
textutils-3.5beta2
gtar-1.3.25
gmake-3.79

and have compiled up the rest of the tools from the Garnome page to 
support the
Garnome installation.

Anyone seem some of these problems?

Thanks,

Ben