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

[dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs)]

In article <3ED3874B.3010704@yahoo.com>,
Kevin Rodgers  <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Dave Uhring wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 26 May 2003 13:13:59 +0000, David Combs wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>Any ideas?
>>>
>> 
>> None, really.  I use gcc-3.2.2 built from source using gcc from the
>> Solaris 9 Software Companion CD; then I pkgrm'd SFWgcc and all of its
>> dependencies and I no longer have /opt/sfw.
>> 
>> Since Sun chose to add its supported free software in /usr/sfw that is
>> where I placed the rest of the free software built from source on this
>> system.
>> 
>> Solaris 9 -does not- "but solaris-NINE wants it in /opt/sfw   (I believe
>> that's who wanted it there, not me)".  If you did a complete install of
>> Solaris 9 you will indeed find much free software in /usr/sfw.
>
>The /opt/sfw (and now /usr/sfw) directory is a bad idea by Sun.  Save
>yourself some grief and make /usr/local a symbolic link to whichever
>directory your version of Solaris came with.
>--
><a href="mailto:&lt;kevin.rodgers&#64;ihs.com&gt;">Kevin Rodgers</a>

Thanks.


You mean make /usr/local a symlink to either /opt/sfw or /usr/sfw,
whichever one I have?

Well, probably due to answering some question wrong (or maybe right?),
I have *both*.

Perhaps best to make /usr/local a symlink to something on
a different partition, and keep them all separate,
so that the companion-disk stuff stays in an sfw-dir,
and the stuff I build can go in the /usr/local,
where so much stuff still seems to want to live.

David