[BuildTools] More tales of GCC 64-bit and Solaris

[Andreas Waechter]

Hi Lou,

Hey, I'm fine with staying with the current setup, since it seems to work 
fine, and upgrading the autotools is a big Pandora's box.

And if you are happy with what is happening for SUN, I certainly will not 
be keen on an upgrade yet.

Cheers!

Andreas

On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Lou Hafer wrote:

> Andreas,
>
>> Maybe some of those issues have been fixed in the newer versions of
>> autoconf, automake, and particularly libtool...
>
>> I will be short of time for a while, but do you think we should pursue the
>> switch?
>
> 	NO WAY!  I just now put the last hack in place in coin.m4 and not five
> minutes ago finished building the Osi unitTest on Solaris x86, GCC, 64-bit.  I
> want to get some mileage out of this.  Savour the moment, so to speak :-)
>
> 	More seriously:  We really should move up to the current versions of the
> autotools.  But we should pick a time when both of us can afford to devote a bit
> of time to it, and when we can enlist the aid of other TLC members and/or
> project managers to do testing.  To do it right, we should go back over coin.m4
> (and individual project configuration files), back out all our hacks that
> compensate for the current generation of autotools, and then repair as needed.
> That's non-trivial work.
>
> 	I know I'll regret putting this in writing, but I think that I've pretty
> well got it nailed for Solaris.  To the best of my knowledge, we're in decent
> shape for other platforms.  Might be better to let the nightly build & test
> initiative get up and running, then we'll have a better testbed for BuildTools
> upgrades.
>
> 							Lou
>
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