Re: Has anyone actually built emacs 21.3 for SOLARIS (sparc)?

[<bbense+gnu.emacs.help.comp.unix.solaris.May.22.03@telemark.slac.stanford.edu>]

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In article <5lu1bner7p.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu> wrote:
>>> For that you need to either provide a -R/usr/sfw/lib argument or an
>>> LD_RUN_PATH to the C compiler (the C compiler did find the library while
>>> compiling,  but the compiler does not assume that the library will be at the
>>> same spot when you run the program as when you compile) or set
>>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH if you forgot to give the relevant info to the compiler.
>>> The -R option is the best choice.
>> Any particular reason the -R stuff isn't added for a Solaris build?
>
>I remember discussions about it a long time ago, but didn't know
>enough at that time and can't remember what was the conclusion.
>It's odd also that the PROBLEMS file only mention LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>and LD_RUN_PATH without mentioning the -R arg in LDFLAGS.
>
>I hope somebody who knows more about how `configure' chooses the -L and -R
>args could help us at least write a better entry in PROBLEMS.
>

_ AFAIK, autoconf doesn't know how to set these things. You
  either have to write your own hacks to configure.in or use the
  generic libtool solution. Libtool was written to solve exactly
  this problem. 

_ Booker C. Bense 

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