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installation guide there is no mention of the proper settings for this
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Subject: 2.7 ! How can I build MH on Solaris 2?
From: Neil Rickert <rickert(_at_)cs(_dot_)niu(_dot_)edu>,
Scott K. Hutton
<shutton(_at_)habanero(_dot_)ucs(_dot_)indiana(_dot_)edu>,
Casper H.S. Dik <casper(_at_)fwi(_dot_)uva(_dot_)nl>
First, don't use the BSD compatible stuff. Make sure that the Sun
or GNU compiler appear before the BSD compiler in your PATH.
Second, don't use GNU make. Make sure that the Sun make appears
before the GNU make in your PATH.
Use conf/examples/solaris2.sun.com and fix the paths, if necessary.
Optionally change the following to use the GNU compiler, to perform
optimization, and to create shared libraries.
cc gcc
ccoptions -O -g -msupersparc
slflags -shared
Incorporate the diff in [Appendix "mhn.c"].
When compiling, you can ignore the following warning:
fmtcompile.c", line 238: warning: semantics of "/" change in ANSI C;
use explicit cast
If you're using AFS, you'll have to replace any occurrence of "ln"
with "ln -s" wherever the make dies when it tries to make a link
"on a different file system." [11.94]
Unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH. [12.94]
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