Mercurial > mxe-octave
changeset 775:f978dd862394
improved installation instructions for Open Solaris (by Tony Theodore)
author | Volker Grabsch <vog@notjusthosting.com> |
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date | Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:30:42 +0100 |
parents | 2c2c29933d77 |
children | f22f4416964d |
files | doc/index.html |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/doc/index.html Sat Feb 20 16:03:20 2010 +0100 +++ b/doc/index.html Sat Feb 20 23:30:42 2010 +0100 @@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ <li><a href="#requirements-freebsd">FreeBSD</a></li> <li><a href="#requirements-frugalware">Frugalware</a></li> <li><a href="#requirements-macos">MacOS</a></li> - <li><a href="#requirements-solaris">Solaris</a></li> + <li><a href="#requirements-opensolaris">Open Solaris</a></li> </ul> <table> @@ -637,11 +637,11 @@ gmake gsed libtool openssl pkgconfig \ scons wget</pre> - <h3 id="requirements-solaris">Open Solaris 2009.06</h3> + <h3 id="requirements-opensolaris">Open Solaris 2009.06</h3> <p> Open Solaris does not fulfill the requirements. - Two requirements are hopelessly outdated (M4, Autoconf) + Two requirements are hopelessly outdated (M4, Autoconf) <a href="#requirements-opensolaris-dev-note">(*)</a>, 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. @@ -650,9 +650,10 @@ </p> <p> - Downgrade mingw-cross-env's Binutils to 2.19 by hand. - (A better solution needs yet to be found.) + Downgrade mingw-cross-env's Binutils to 2.19 by hand: </p> + <pre>wget http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/mingw-cross-env/raw-file/a69aa7de9d10/src/binutils.mk +mv binutils.mk /<em>where mingw-cross-env is installed</em>/src/</pre> <p> Install all requirements @@ -674,7 +675,7 @@ <p> Edit your .bashrc script to add /usr/local/bin to $PATH, - and restart the Bash: + and start a new shell session: </p> <pre>export PATH=/<em>where mingw-cross-env is installed</em>/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH</pre> @@ -704,6 +705,14 @@ python setup.py build pfexec python setup.py install cd ..</pre> + + <p id="requirements-opensolaris-dev-note"> + (*) If you are using the + <a href="http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/en/index.shtml">development repository</a>, + M4 and Autoconf will meet the requirements. + However, recent versions of bash (4+) from this source + will cause certain builds to fail. + </p> </div> <div class="section">