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From: Anthony Rossini <rossini@stat.sc.edu>
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As I mentioned in my last email, the combination:
	Sparc Ultra 1, Solaris 2.5, gcc, R6.3, gave me a failures, due 
	to a problem with tv_sec.   This still happens with beta-10.

Same problems with Beta 10.

However, I tried Sun's CC (V 4.0), and it seems to be running, now...
(i.e. I configured with:

configure --prefix=/p1/apps/X11R6.3 --with-gcc=no --compiler=/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc

). The weird thing is that it wouldn't default to "cc" normally.
I.e. if I don't want to use gcc, I need to say WHICH cc to use... In
particular,

	 configure --prefix=/p1/apps/X11R6.3 --with-gcc=no

was unhappy, as follows:

- You did not tell me what kind of host system you want to configure.
- I will attempt to guess the kind of system this is.
- Looks like this is a sparc-sun-solaris2.5
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking the configuration name
    Defining OS_RELEASE = 55
    xemacs will be linked with "debug.o"
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc... cc
checking whether the C compiler (cc -g -O2 ) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables.

Of course, since cc is /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc, in my case (and in my
path), why, after saying NOT to use gcc, did it still want to use gcc?

Anyway, I can finally run the recent beta, so I'm happy.  Even if it
wasn't as smooth as I'd like...

Oh, yes:
	src/xemacs -batch -f test-atoms
gives nothing.

best,

-- 
-tony (Anthony Rossini)	           Statistics Dept., U South Carolina
rossini@stat.sc.edu	           Columbia, SC 29208
http://www.stat.sc.edu/~rossini/   803-777-3578(O) 803-777-4048 (fax)  
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