Re: configure on Solaris

[Erik Mouw <J A K Mouw its tudelft nl>]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 11:53:43 -0800, Sam O'Connor wrote:
> I have a report from a user that: 
> "the `Configure' scripts fails on finding the
> following header file: argz.h which exists on
> Linux but not on Solaris."

Yes, that is one of the differences between Linux and Slowaris.

> Is this a known problem?

It is known, but not a as problem. The purpose of the configure script is
to find out what features a certain platform has. If configure tests if
argz.h is available, that test was done on purpose. If argz.h is not
available, then certain workaround must be enabled to be able to compile 
the package. The configure script just reports what it finds out about the
system, it's up to the programmer to decide if a missing feature is fatal
or not. Just configure the package and try to make it.


Erik

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