[Expat-bugs] RE: Solaris make error

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

John.Hockaday@ga.gov.au writes:
 > I noticed that there was a thread about compiling expat on the Solaris
 > 2.8 platform in September 2002.  

I should spend some time catching up with that; I've been a little
swamped with other work lately.

 > I have been able to compile expat-1.95.5.tar.gz on a Solaris 2.8 UNIX
 > platform using the following gcc setup:
...
 > make check
 > gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -fexceptions
 > -I./lib -I. -o tests/runtes
 > ts.o -c tests/runtests.c
 > tests/runtests.c:2:19: check.h: No such file or directory

Here's the critical clue...

 > Could this indicate that I am having troubles compiling expat-1.95.5
 > because of my gcc setup or is there something else that I am missing?
 > If so, what version of gcc should I be using and should I be using GNU
 > "as" and "ld"?

The regression test uses an external support library call "check";
this appearanly isn't installed on your system.  You can get the
package from:

	http://sourceforge.net/projects/check/


  -Fred

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