Re: Compiling libwww on Solaris with Sun's c compiler

On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Tanmay Patwardhan wrote:

> Has anyone succeeded in compiling libwww with the following congifuration:
> 1. Solaris 2.8

  $ uname -a
  SunOS res 5.8 Generic_108528-14 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10

> 2. Sun's C compiler

  $ cc -V 
  cc: Sun Workshop 6 2000/04/07 C 5.1

Yes, however there are some oddities with the libtool generated by configure
in the w3c-libwww-5.4.0 distribution.  There are several invocations of test
that need to have additional quotes around the macros they use.  A quick fix is
to patch libtool as follows, (after running configure),

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<     if test $pic_mode = no && test "$deplibs_check_method" != pass_all; then
---
>     if test "$pic_mode" = no && test "$deplibs_check_method" != pass_all; then
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< 	   { test $linkmode = lib && test $hardcode_into_libs = yes; }; then
---
> 	   { test "$linkmode" = lib && test "$hardcode_into_libs" = yes; }; then
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< 	     { test $hardcode_into_libs != yes || test $build_old_libs = yes ||
---
> 	     { test "$hardcode_into_libs" != yes || test "$build_old_libs" = yes ||
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< 	if test $hardcode_into_libs != yes || test $build_old_libs = yes; then
---
> 	if test "$hardcode_into_libs" != yes || test $build_old_libs = yes; then
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< 	    if test $build_libtool_need_lc = "yes"; then
---
> 	    if test "$build_libtool_need_lc" = "yes"; then
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< 	if test $hardcode_into_libs = yes; then
---
> 	if test "$hardcode_into_libs" = yes; then

I had not noticed this before, but then again, I use usually use gcc . . . 

> 3. Sun's make file

No, it will not work unless you were to hand edit all the GNU make syntax out of
the generated makefiles.  Much better to build a copy of the GNU make[1],
install it as gmake and then run it by setting you MAKE environment variable,

  $ MAKE=gmake gmake

more,
l8r,

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