Re: libwww on Solaris 2.7/gcc

[Håvard Wigtil <havardw stud ntnu no>]

On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, David T. Bath wrote:

> Problem in a nutshell:
> 	Failure to compile libwww on Solaris 2.7 with gcc
> Source of libwww code
> 	W3C
> Reason this involves Gnome:
> 	GtkHTML wants it, ideally
> Symptoms:
> 	Disgusting parse errors of time-related structures
> 	: timeval, timestruc_t et al.
> My Thoughts:
> 	This probably has to do with the mixed 64/32 mode
> 	of Solaris stuff and the complicated headers.  I can
> 	see the definitions of timeval, timestruc_t and the
> 	like, but cannot figure what magic incantations of
> 	CFLAGS I should use.
> Questions:
> 	1. Does anybody know what CFLAGS might solve the problem

Probably not solving the problem, but CFLAGS="-msupersparc -O2"
works for me.

> 	2. What is the impact of not having libwww.a

You won't be able to build the test program, but GtkHtml should build.

    Håvard

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