Subject: Pine on Solaris

From: [email-masked] (David Lemson)
Date: 31 Aug 1995 20:54:35 GMT

What's the official "best way" to compile Pine 3.91 on Solaris?  For
some reason (I am not sure why, it has been so long), I have been
using gcc.  What do other people use?

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 21:07:14 -0700

> using gcc.  What do other people use?

The official way is with SUN's compiler, and that is what the sol part
is designed for.  As many people have noticed, the sol port does not build
using gcc without substantial modification.  About 90% of the sol port are
specific details for the native Solaris compiler, only about 10% is for
the Solaris operating system.

However, there *will* be a gso (GNU Solaris) port, either in Pine 3.92 or
a future version, and this will become the recommended and supported
version.  We too have grown weary of SUN's shenanigans with its C
compiler, and may drop support for the native Solaris compiler entirely
(in other words, *require* gcc).

-- Mark --

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