Solaris 2.6 findings

[Matthias Andree]

Matthias Andree <matthias.andree at gmx.de> writes:

> I have dug out my old Solaris 2.6 x86 install media and set up Solaris
> 2.6 and installed gcc-2.8.1. Some findings:
>
> make: Fatal error: Don't know how to make target `../configure.ac'
> Current working directory /home/emma/bogofilter-build/src
> *** Error code 1
>
> It should have looked at ../bogofilter/configure.ac instead, but I
> haven't yet researched the reasons.

GNU make 3.80 works, so I won't dig deeper.

> 2. Solaris 2.6 doesn't ship Perl, but we're not currently skipping tests
>    that require Perl. We'd better fix this as Solaris 2.6 is not the
>    only system that does not ship Perl. I'll try to make sure that
>    Perl-dependent tests are skipped (rather than fail) when Perl is not
>    installed. Granted, we won't see many systems that don't have Perl,
>    but I hope fixing it isn't too much an effort.

Fixed.

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Matthias Andree