Re: Compiling emacs on solaris10

Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 13:32:09 +0100, Rainer Beushausen <surfnasi@xxxxxx> wrote:

FiLH wrote:

I'm trying to compile emacs21.4 on a solaris10 system. When I
use gcc 3.4.6 the build fails because emacs coredumps on exit
(so it can precompile the .el files).

I have installed sun studio11 and when trying to compile with CC=cc
it seems that configure does not find unistd and than all the system
calls are undefined.

Same here. I successfully built emacs 21.4.1 using gcc 2.95.3 from the
3/05 companion cd. configure was:

configure --prefix=/usr/local/emacs --with-x-toolkit=motif --with-x


If you get a chance to try gcc-4 can you post the configure
command, the generated `config.log' file, and any errors you see?

I haven't tried gcc-4 on Solaris 10, since Sun Studio was available,
and it worked on the sparc/x86 systems I had, so there may be some
bug which is triggered by gcc-4 or some gcc-4 bug that is triggered
by Emacs.


I did a compile with gcc-4.1.1. Basically the same result. Executable
builds but crashes regularly with seg-fault at exit. Saw a lot of
warnings about type mismatches. Seems to me, the code isn't suited
very well for Solaris and gcc > 2. Strange enough, emacs builds and runs
flawlessly on linux (gcc 3.4.6).

A first attempt to compile with Studio-11 has crashed because configure
failed to recognize existence of headers like unistd.h and friends.

I then replaced src/config.h with that one created while configuring
for gcc-4. This time I was able to compile with Studio 11. I had to edit
src/Makefile to provide some missing libs for linking. No core dump.

From this: Someone should hack the configure script to get it recognize
Sun Studio properly.

Rainer




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