From: Jason Riedy <ejr@cs.berkeley.edu>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Thomas Glanzmann <thomas@glanzmann.de>, GIT <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie>
Subject: Re: If NEEDS_LIBICONV is set for Solaris 8, it does not build git for me
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:35:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878x97eznf.fsf@sparse.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v8x98qc3k.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:59:11 -0700")
And Junio C. Hamano writes:
>
> In a distant past when I built git on an otherwise unused Sol8
> at work I recall I needed that. I do not think that machine
> used Forte compiler, though.
I didn't even know you could patch 5.8 enough to use that
compiler version. I can't imagine what strange combinations of
C89 and C99 features are available.
Luckily for me, I no longer have easy access to Solaris <9.
At some point, the crazy patch combinations need relegated to
each particular site's config.mak. Solaris 8 has entered the
first "retirement phase", but new orders can include it for about
another month:
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/support/sol8.xml
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-23 18:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-22 10:40 If NEEDS_LIBICONV is set for Solaris 8, it does not build git for me Thomas Glanzmann
2007-07-22 22:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-23 18:35 ` Jason Riedy [this message]
2007-07-23 18:51 ` Thomas Glanzmann
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