Re: What's up with Solaris builds

In article <[email protected]>,
Reinout van Schouwen  <[email protected]> wrote:
>Kenneth Herron wrote:
>
>> The forte compiler is reputed to produce better code, so if you have 
>> access to forte you should probably use that. If you use gcc, you have 
>
>Thanks for the advice. How would I best indicate that I want to use 
>Forte instead of GCC? GCC is first in my PATH.

I don't do this regularly, but as I recall you can set the CC and
CXX environment variables to the name of the c and c++ compilers when
running configure.


>$ make -f client.mk build
>mozilla/build/autoconf/mozconfig2client-mk: MOZ_PHOENIX=1: is not an 
>identifier
>client.mk:159: /net/public2/reinout/mozilla/.mozconfig.mk: No such file 
>or directory
>make: *** No rule to make target 
>`/net/public2/reinout/mozilla/.mozconfig.mk'. Stop.

This error is due to a bash/ksh-specific line in the mozconfig files
for firefox and thunderbird. I believe the bug was fixed last week so if
you're building from the nightly source you could just get a new tarball;
otherwise you can hand-edit the mozconfig files. You need to change:

	export MOZ_PHOENIX=1
to
	MOZ_PHOENIX=1 export MOZ_PHOENIX
or
	MOZ_PHOENIX=1
	export MOZ_PHOENIX

I think the equivalent line in the thunderbird mozconfig refers to
MOZ_THUNDERBIRD.


> > Java 1.4.1 included a gcc 2.95.x version of the plugin, but no gcc 3.x
> > version of the plugin has ever been released for solaris/sparc.
>
>Not even in JDK 1.5.0?

Nope, not with java 1.4.2 or 1.5.0. There's an open bug about this issue
in the public java bug database, but I couldn't give you a URL off the
top of my head. Bottom line is if you want to compile with gcc and use
the java plugin, you have to compile with gcc 2.95.x (or older) and use
java 1.4.1 (or older).
-- 
Kenneth Herron
"Netscape pollution must be eradicated."
    -- Jeff Raikes, Vice president, Microsoft