Re: You have got to be kidding me!

[Andreas Jaeger]

John Williams <address@hidden> writes:

> I just tried to run configure on an Ultra30 sun workstation...  and got
> the following:
>
>
> urchin% ../glibc-2.2.5/configure --enable-add-ons
> loading cache ./config.cache
> checking host system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.8
> *** The GNU C library is currently not available for this platform.
> *** So far nobody cared to port it and if there is no volunteer it
> *** might never happen.  So, if you have interest to see glibc on
> *** this platform visit
> *** http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/porting.html
> *** and join the group of porters
> urchin%
>
> Now obviously I am trying to compile glibc, and I am not doing it as a
> leisure
> activity.  So this is some dimbulbs idea of humor or what?

glibc will not work on Solaris, since glibc needs work for each
architecture and operating system.  It is a lot of work to get it done
and if you want to do this, you can persuade configure to let you
start with the "secret" argument --enable-hacker-mode - but note that
if even you use this, glibc will not work as documented above.

Andreas
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