Solaris 8(Intel) Build

[Mo DeJong]

On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Ben Elliston wrote:

>    I would like to put on record that Source Navigator builds fine on
>    Solaris8/Intel, It does demand using the GNU tar on the source package
>    AND gmake (the Solaris make had problems with one of the makefiles).
>    I'm now rather happy & thanks to Ben & Eric for their responses.
> 
> Building a tar file that can be unpacked with older Unix tar programs is a
> simple matter of packaging.  I assume this didn't happen -- Syd?
>
> As for the make problem -- this should not happen, either.  S-N uses
> Automake, which generates portable Makefiles.  Can you post the error that
> you got so that we can fix such problems?

It does? Last I heard, automake generated makefiles would  
not run with BSD make.  I have not run test myself, this is
just what I have seen users report on other projects.

Mo DeJong
Red Hat Inc