Re: GNOME and Sun Workshop 4.2 compiler

[Raja R Harinath <harinath cs umn edu>]

Zach Frey <zfrey@bright.net> writes:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 08:15:38AM -0400, allbery@ece.cmu.edu wrote:
> > I used to do that, along with Purify.  But to build from CVS you
> > *must* use gcc:  in non-"release" code libtool does stuff that only
> > works with gcc.
>  
> Really?  I wonder why ... unfortunately, I don't understand libtool
> at all.
> 
> So that means that, if I want Sun-compiled GNOME, I need to wait for
> released tarballs, and avoid CVS?  That's not much of a hardship for me.

Well, you could compile with gcc, and run

      make distcheck

You'll get a nice tarball in your build directory which you can then
use for your nefarious activities (like building with Sun CC ;-).

- Hari
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