Re: Portability

[Raja R Harinath <harinath cs umn edu>]

davidk@lysator.liu.se (David Kågedal) writes:
> I must say that I'm quite impressed that GNOME is so portable.  I have
> compiled it (from CVS) on Solaris 2.6, and it only needed some small
> modifications to work.

What modifications?
 
> I also use a build directory separate from the source directory.  This
> also works quite well.  Some Makefiles needed a little tweaking.

What tweaking?

> What kind of systems have GNOME been built on?

Mostly on various flavours of Linux.  But, AFAIK, it's also regularly
built on:

	SPARC Solaris 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6?
	SunOS
	IRIX v?
	FreeBSD v?
	(others?)

- Hari
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