Re: pre-release available for testing
Martin Huber (hu@garfield.m.isar.de)
Wed, 4 Nov 1998 22:07:43 +0100 (MET)
>
> On Tue, 3-Nov-1998 @ 23:51, Martin Huber wrote:
> > Subject: Re: pre-release available for testing
> >
> > > From: "Scott J. Kramer" <sjk@lux.com>
> > > Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 23:10:07 -1000
> > > .......
> > >
> > > On Fri, 30-Oct-1998 @ 23:42, David Mosberger-Tang wrote:
> > > > Subject: pre-release available for testing
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > Hi David,
> > >
> > > Just grabbed sane-pre0.75.tar.gz and diff'd it with sane-0.74, and...
> > >
> > > I'd like to suggest upgrading to at least version 1.2 of libtool --
> > > that was what was necessary for me to build sane-0.74 for Solaris
> > > 2.5.1 (gcc-2.8.1). Otherwise, the `make' produces core dumps when
> > > attempting to create executables under frontend/.libs:
>
> [...]
>
> > I compiled sane-0.74 as well as sane-pre0.75 on Solaris 2.6 sparc
> > and x86 without any errors.
>
> Ahh, so the printf bug that pre-1.2 libtool tickles when building sane
> (and a few other software packages) is fixed in Solaris 2.6. Good to
> know, tho' that still doesn't help those of us stuck at 2.5 for a bit
> longer, lacking time to upgrade. See that unconfigured Ultra-5 in the
> other room? :-)
>
Ahh, -- I have on my systems a /opt/local/bin/printf of the
GNU shelltools in the path in front of /usr/bin/printf.
With SUN's original printf I get a coredump with Solaris 2.6 too.
--martin
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