Re: gnome-vfs: Can anyone compile it on Solaris 2.6?

[Troy Carter <tcarter princeton edu>]

Oops, looks like I was wrong about the lack of recursive mutexes in
gnome-vfs HEAD.  They are definitely in there, so maybe I was wrong
about any effort to remove recursive mutexes from gnome-vfs.  So I guess
Solaris 2.6 is not going to be supported in gnome-1.4.  Also, I just
realized who you were, Paul (your e-mail sounded familiar) -- I have
been referring to your website to get gnome compiled on solaris 2.6 (in
a non-root account) for the last year or so. It's a great guide for
those who want to get gnome compiled on solaris, take a look:
http://www.clanger9.demon.co.uk/computer/gnome/index.html

-Troy


    I have also been trying to compile gnome-vfs on solaris 2.6 for a
    while.
    The problem is that libpthread on solaris 2.6 does not have
    recursive
    mutexes.  This is only in Solaris 7 or 8.  So, if gnome-vfs
    continues to
    use them, it will not compile on solaris 2.6.  I think that they are
    being removed from gnome-vfs, at least this is the indication I have
    got
    poking around mailing list archives.  I have been trying to compile
    gnome-vfs HEAD from cvs (anoncvs).  It seems that the recursive
    mutexes
    are gone (at least it seems that way from briefly perusing the
    source,
    not that I am a hacker), but now I can't get it to compile for other
    reasons (if anyone is listening who could help, the compile error I
    am
    getting is:
    cc1: warnings being treated as errors
    gnome-vfs-application-registry.c: In function
    `strip_trailing_whitespace':
    gnome-vfs-application-registry.c:668: warning: subscript has type
    `char'
    make[2]: *** [gnome-vfs-application-registry.lo] Error 1
    make[2]: Leaving directory
    `/p/mrxdata2/usr2/src/gnome-1.4/gnome-vfs/libgnomevfs'
    make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
    make[1]: Leaving directory
    `/p/mrxdata2/usr2/src/gnome-1.4/gnome-vfs'
    make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
    )


    -Troy

    >gnome-vfs-0.6.2 sill fails to compile here on Solaris 2.6 with
    >PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE undelclared in gnome_vfs_pthread.c
    >
    >It has been suggested that this release should compile on Solaris,
    >but I'm not sure if this includes 2.6.
    >
    >Should I file a bug, or is this already fixed?

-- 
Troy Carter
tcarter princeton edu