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

[dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs)]

In article <pan.2003.05.21.23.34.38.457266@yahoo.com>,
Dave Uhring <daveuhring@yahoo.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 21 May 2003 22:24:22 +0000, David Combs wrote:
>
>> To summarize one of your points, you say to set
>> the LDFLAGS *now*, eg in .cshrc, so it's always
>> there.
>
>Yes, so that it is in your environment -anytime- you run a configure
>script.  Note that not all those configure scripts will create proper
>LDFLAGS in your Makefiles.  You need to monitor that; for each -L in the
>linking output there needs be a corresponding -R.
>
>Considering c-shell you might also want to read this:
>
>http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ 
>
>
>> And to IGNORE the idea of a RUN path.  (Since one
>> person evidently believes in it, maybe a few
>> educational words on why not -- the more you
>> explain, in some depth, the more that other
>> people will learn, and have an easier time with
>> building eg emacs.)
>
>Solaris run-time linker, ld.so.1, does not even recognize that LD_RUN_PATH
>value.  man ld.so.1  It does not even appear in the ld.so(8) man page for
>Linux.
>
>
>> Oh, is there some EASY way, cookbook like, to grab
>> an emacs from CVS, without having to *learn* the
>> whole freaking thing?
>
>EMACS is a GNU utility.  I don't know about a publicly readable CVS
>repository for it, but you might check at http://www.gnu.org.

Well, earlier in this thread, someone said he had
successfully built this, that, and the cvs version.

Thanks all for all the info.

I go crash, and give a try tomorrow.

David