Re: If NEEDS_LIBICONV is set for Solaris 8, it does not build git for me

From: Thomas Glanzmann <thomas@glanzmann.de>
Date: Jul 23, 2007, 18:51 UTC
Message-ID: <20070723185111.GA16085@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
In-Reply-To: <878x97eznf.fsf@sparse.dyndns.org>

Hello,

> I didn't even know you could patch 5.8 enough to use that compiler
> version.  I can't imagine what strange combinations of C89 and C99
> features are available.

I even think that Forte 11 was one of the first who supported C99 in the first place. However my intention is the following: I build git on Solaris 5.8 because it works on any system that is 5.8 or higher (5.9, 5.10 and the upcomming 5.11). Good in theory. But not in practice since they bumped the perl version (I did not thought of that before). With high probability I could work around that. But at the moment I don't care that much because I have a build host for every major release of Solaris and I don't use the perl part of git not that much. However having git on Solaris is a real pleasure. Together with sudo and vim.

        Thomas