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authorMichael Kostylev <michael.kostylev@gmail.com>2010-03-28 20:16:09 +0000
committerDiego Biurrun <diego@biurrun.de>2010-03-28 20:16:09 +0000
commite69decaef4da0c644955ff2ea5d3a71fd7dd44f9 (patch)
treea4d376d164099a4b23e4cef89d1e08d50b94edea /doc
parent6aaa9bc9b55237d5806f00f6f887e584aa210400 (diff)
Clarify (Open)Solaris section of the documentation.
patch by Michael Kostylev, michael.kostylev gmail com Originally committed as revision 22713 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
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@@ -740,9 +740,17 @@ For information about compiling FFmpeg on OS/2 see
@section (Open)Solaris
GNU Make is required to build FFmpeg, so you have to invoke (@file{gmake}),
-standard Solaris Make will not work. Depending on your system configuration
-you might be using a non-POSIX-compatible default shell. Ensure that a
-POSIX-compatible shell is in your path or invoke it directly.
+standard Solaris Make will not work. When building with a non-c99 front-end
+(gcc, generic suncc) add either @code{--extra-libs=/usr/lib/32/values-xpg6.o}
+or @code{--extra-libs=/usr/lib/64/values-xpg6.o} to the configure options
+since the libc is not c99-compliant by default. The probes performed by
+configure may raise an exception leading to the death of configure itself
+due to a bug in the system shell. Simply invoke a different shell such as
+bash directly to work around this:
+
+@example
+bash ./configure
+@end example
@section Windows