[desktop-discuss] Solaris Dev Express breaks SUNWlibpopt buildHey

[Doug Scott]

Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 16:15 -0800, Doug Scott wrote:
>   
>> G'Day,
>>    I have just update my CBE to 1.5.1. Doing so it picked up the path
>> for cc as /usr/bin/cc. Now since cc is a link to /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc
>> this would normally be a good thing. Unfortunately building libpopt, it puts the compiler
>> path at the beginning of the path. Now it finds the Sun version of xgettext instead
>> of the GNU version, and bombs out -
>>
>> pkgbuild:   *** GNU gettext is required. The latest version
>> pkgbuild:   *** is always available from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/.
>> pkgbuild: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/pkgbuild-jdsbuild/pkgbuild-tmp-2.21278
>>
>> The fix is to either hack /opt/jdsbld/bin/env.sh & env.csh or to reinstall CBE making
>> sure you specify /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc as the location for the compiler.
>>     
>
> Hmm... I tried to reproduce this by creating the cc symlink in /usr/bin
> and setting CC to /usr/bin/cc and it built just fine, so it must be
> something else.  Do you still have config.log from the failed build
Ahhh,
  I have rebooted since then (a vermillion install). I will see if I can 
reproduce it.

Doug