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Would it help if I tarred everything up and sent it to you?

Hmm, I am afraid not. The only thing it could _really_ help is providing me with access to a fully configured Solaris machine (with all the required development tools in place) for 30 minutes. I know in the past you objected to this and suggested I install Solaris instead: unfortunately I don't have the time to do that. So let us wait for someone who can provide me access to such a machine: if there is a real interest in having the PPL running on Solaris, I am sure this will happen soon. All the best,

Roberto

Right, essentially because I'm behind a firewall and NAT that are not under my control so I have no way to cut a hole for ssh access otherwise ...

Ok, so there are essentially two default compilers for Solaris/OpenSolaris. GCC and Sun Studio. There are others but let's not complicate things.

Sun Studio is the one that I've been fighting with and not having any luck. You have tried to provide support and if I was an actual coder it probably would have made sense. Ok, I'm tired of fighting Sun Studio so back to gcc.

Solaris/OpenSolaris comes with gcc 3.4.3 as the default compiler. As you have already noted that version is to old be be used with PPL. So the recipe is:

Get and install the current version of binutils. This is used to replace the stock versions of as and ld that come with Solaris and is an attempt to get the system to be as close to a Linux dev box as possible.

For the path statement add the directory where you will install binutils and gcc eventually followed by /usr/gnu/bin which again is used to get the box as close to a Linux box as possible and then any other pathing statements that you need.

After binutils compile and add the current version of gcc. You cannot use the PPL switch as you haven't got that far yet and is the purpose of this in the first place.

Get and install gmp using -fexceptions and --enable-gxx as per the requirements page.

Then compile PPL with the --with-gnu-ld switch and it goes off without a hitch.

gmake check shows all tests passed for the first two tests of 1 and 41. It's still running but I don't expect anything major to show up.

thanks, alan

The only errors in the output are these:

g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I.. -I../src -I/opt/gcc/include -g -O2 -frounding-math -W -Wall -MT ppl-config.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/ppl-config.Tpo -c -o ppl-config.o ppl-config.cc ppl-config.cc:158: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ ppl-config.cc:158: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ ppl-config.cc:158: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ ppl-config.cc:158: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ ppl-config.cc:158: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ ppl-config.cc:158: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ ppl-config.cc:158: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ ppl-config.cc:158: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ ppl-config.cc:158: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ ppl-config.cc:158: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ ppl-config.cc:158: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ ppl-config.cc:158: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ ppl-config.cc:158: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ ppl-config.cc:158: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ ppl-config.cc:158: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ ppl-config.cc:158: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ ppl-config.cc:158: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ ppl-config.cc:158: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ ppl-config.cc:158: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ ppl-config.cc:158: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ ppl-config.cc:158: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ ppl-config.cc:158: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ ppl-config.cc:158: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ ppl-config.cc:158: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ ppl-config.cc:158: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ ppl-config.cc:158: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ mv -f .deps/ppl-config.Tpo .deps/ppl-config.Po

g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../.. -I../../src -I../../utils -I/opt/gcc/include -g -O2 -frounding-math -W -Wall -MT ppl_lcdd.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/ppl_lcdd.Tpo -c -o ppl_lcdd.o ppl_lcdd.cc ppl_lcdd.cc:161: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ ppl_lcdd.cc:161: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ ppl_lcdd.cc:161: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ ppl_lcdd.cc:161: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ ppl_lcdd.cc:161: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ ppl_lcdd.cc:161: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ ppl_lcdd.cc:161: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ ppl_lcdd.cc:161: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ mv -f .deps/ppl_lcdd.Tpo .deps/ppl_lcdd.Po