Actually I misunderstood the data structure. /usr is ro, but /usr/local/ is mounted rw, so it was not the issue. For some reason, if I use the easy install, libcurl and libcitadel do not compile, but if I manually go into the directory and run the same configure command, it completes just fine... > Mon May 15 2017 03:07:17 PM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar @ Uncensored >Subject: Re: building on solarish... > > >>I think I discovered the issue... will find out in a moment. It seems that
> > >>/usr (which is mounted ro on this system) makes it impossible for >>/usr/local/blah to be created. I changed all instances in easyinstall >>script > > >>to use /opt/local/ instead, but do I need to also manually edit all the > > >>Makefiles? > >Yikes ... that's a pretty big deal ... but yes, if you change ALL of the >/usr/local references in Easy Install then it should work. There's nothing >hardcoded into the makefiles to require /usr/local. > > > >
