Re: gEDA-user: geda vs. SPARC

[Dan McMahill <dan@mcmahill.net>]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 03:00:24PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Apr 26, 2004, at 5:19 AM, Levente KOVACS wrote:
> >I try to build gEDA on a machine (namely Sun ULTRA1)with SPARC
> >architecture. I get libgeda compiled, but gschem and geda does not.
> >
> >Does anyone have experience with it? I use gcc3, geda is the latest.
> >
> >Geda has troubel with gettext. I have installed gettext, but it's a
> >separate library. Geda want's to have some functions accesd from the
> >standard C lib. I do not know why.
> >
> >The Make script of Gschem stoped by lots of errors. Parse errors. Some
> >realy uncool thing happens with gschem.
> 
>   It would be helpful to know what operating system and compiler you're 
> running.
> 
>   FYI, I have several beefy UltraSPARC machines here, all running 
> Solaris9, and I'm interested in getting gschem running on one of them.  
> At one point I had made some progress in getting it built with Sun's 
> compiler (which produces FAR superior output than GCC on many RISC 
> processors), but that was a long time ago and I never finished building 
> up a list of the required changes.
> 
 
I use geda on solaris-2.8 and I'm pretty sure I built it on 2.9
as well.  On the 2.8 box, I actually was using gtk12 and no i18n
by using --disable-nls --with-gtk12 as configure args.

This was with gcc though.  No SunPRO license :(

-Dan

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