Re: Solaris5.8 build on Sparc

Julien R Pierre - Sun Microsystems <[email protected]> Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:34:57 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.nspr
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Vinu,

Vinu wrote:
> I tried to do an NSPR build on Solaris8 from the sources.
> 
> 
> 
> My Sun C++ Compiler doesn't work and gives me some license server 
> error(server is down or not responding, even though lmgrd seems to be 
> running...any ideas anyone???)

What version of the Sun compiler ?

You should be able to download the latest studio 12 from www.sun.com , 
without running into license server issues.

> So I switched to using gcc to build NSPR using "make NS_USE_GCC=1"(I 
> don't remember the exact flag).

While it should work, gcc is not the compiler we use on Solaris to build 
NSPR, so build issues with gcc on Solaris will get less attention from 
us than with Studio on Solaris .