Re: [GNUnet-developers] GNUnet-0.5.4 on Solaris 9

[Christian Grothoff]

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On Friday 06 June 2003 02:22 pm, you wrote:
> --- Christian Grothoff <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > On Thursday 05 June 2003 08:34 pm, Kenneth Stailey wrote:
> > > The same problem with -R happened with glib but it's so messy.  The
> > > problem is that "glib-config -libs" does not spit out the -R option
> > > even though it is a requirement.
> >
> > But these are not problems with GNUnet. These are problems with the C++
> > compiler or glib (or your glib installation???). It is really bad to
> > hardwire paths like /usr/local into configure.ac; and in fact, I did not
> > have to do this on the Solaris 8 machine that I have access to. Also note
> > that GNUnet does not require C++, so I'm not sure where all of this
> > libstdc++.so stuff is coming from. libextractor uses C++ (in the PDF
> > extractor), maybe you're confusing something here?
>
> The GNUnet 0.5.4 configure.ac has:
>
> # Checks for programs.
> AC_PROG_CXX
>
> which will try to build a program linking in libstdc++.so stuff.
>
> Please take out 'AC_PROG_CXX' from configure.ac if you are not using C++.

Done.

> Thanks.

No problem.

> > I don't have access to Solaris 9, so of course you may have some problems
> > that relate exclusively to that OS.
>
> The problem is that /usr/local/lib is not searched by default and Solaris
> has never had anything like ldconfig(8).  You can either setup an
> environment varible called LD_LIBRARY_PATH which is bad I think for
> security or you can link with -R
> /path/to/shared/lib:/another/path/to/more/shared/libs
>
> There are other Solaris 9 issues I think:

Yes, they have been reported and fixed in CVS:
https://www.ovmj.org/~mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000482

Christian
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