Re: [Help-smalltalk] More Solaris 8 fun..

[Rick Flower]

On 02.11.2012 03:02, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

> > 2) various sync functions are missing (e.g.
> > __sync_bool_compare_and_swap) from this version of GCC (4.1.0) -- as
> > these did not go in until 4.2.. Any ideas on how to proceed with 
> > this?
> > The code in gstpriv.h does not appear to be conditional so everyone 
> > is
> > expected to have it..
>
> Yes, that's the case indeed.

Ok.. Can we at least get the web page changed to show that a gcc-4.2+
compiler is required to build the github snapshots?  Sounds like we're
not looking back.. Eventually once the next release is made it should
also be listed as a regular prerequisite/assumption.  I'm not convinced
it's time well spent looking for an alternative for Sparc/Solaris at
this point.