Re: Garnome 2.10.0.1 on Solaris 8, part 1 (long)

[Carson Gaspar <carson taltos org>]

--On Friday, April 01, 2005 01:08:31 PM -0800 Joachim Feise 
<jfeise ics uci edu> wrote:

> Ok, as promised, here is my report on what I needed to do to get Garnome
> compiled on Solaris 8. Some of this may be specific to my setup, so your
> mileage may vary.
> I split this up in two posts, since it gets pretty large.
>
> I added -DUSE_SOLARIS to my CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS. There is another define
> within gcc for Solaris (sun), but originally I was too lazy to look that
> up, and later I decided to stick with my original define.
> I found that some programs use 'sun' as a variable, and that results in
> weird compilation errors, so I changed the variable whenever I
> encountered this. I have also not verified that all programs work, I am
> happy to just have the basic stuff running.

1) The correct cpp test is for SunOS 5.x is 'defined(__SVR4) && 
defined(__sun)' (you need the SVR4 to exclude SunOS 4.x).

2) Some of your patches use -lucb . This is a _really_ bad idea. The 
software needs to be patched to use POSIX/SUS APIs instead. Fortunately, 
only seahorse and matchbox-desktop have such hacks.

3) The 'sun' variable conflicts will go away using Sun's cc if you pass 
'-Xc' to the compiler. Similarly, passing '-ansi' or '-std=c99' (or any 
other -std=foo flag, as far as I can tell) to gcc will fix this.

--
Carson