# HG changeset patch # User Volker Grabsch # Date 1266678200 -3600 # Node ID 2c2c29933d77446f8bd2e9bb6f8393df17a523e3 # Parent 45e25b2bc3936274715f7a78e529271c260a3208 again improved installation instructions for Solaris diff -r 45e25b2bc393 -r 2c2c29933d77 doc/index.html --- a/doc/index.html Sat Feb 20 13:27:29 2010 +0100 +++ b/doc/index.html Sat Feb 20 16:03:20 2010 +0100 @@ -640,14 +640,22 @@

Open Solaris 2009.06

- Open Solaris seems to have a problem with Binutils 2.20. - It should work if you - downgrade mingw-cross-env's Binutils to 2.19 by hand. - A good solution needs yet to be found. + Open Solaris does not fulfill the requirements. + Two requirements are hopelessly outdated (M4, Autoconf) + and one requirement is not provided at all (SCons). + In addition, due to a bug in its LibC, + Open Solaris is unable to run some tools of Binutils 2.20. + If you want to run mingw-cross-env on Open Solaris nevertheless, + a lot of manual work is required:

- First, install all requirements + Downgrade mingw-cross-env's Binutils to 2.19 by hand. + (A better solution needs yet to be found.) +

+ +

+ Install all requirements that already ship with Solaris:

@@ -665,10 +673,15 @@ pfexec ln -s automake-1.10 /usr/bin/automake

- Then download and install M4, Autoconf and SCons by hand: + Edit your .bashrc script to add /usr/local/bin to $PATH, + and restart the Bash:

-
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
+    
export PATH=/where mingw-cross-env is installed/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH
+

+ Download and install M4, Autoconf and SCons by hand: +

+
 wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.5.tar.gz
 tar -xzf m4-1.4.5.tar.gz
 cd m4-1.4.5