I have some spare time, so I'll see what I can get done today. I will only be able to test on Solaris, so someone will need to test my patch on Linux.
Gregg Mattinson Co-op Developer Sun Microsystems of Canada >From: Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Francois Gouget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: solaris configure strangness >Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 09:09:07 +0300 > > >Francois Gouget wrote: > >>So to have a clean configure, the above header must be moved out of the >>big AC_CHECK_HEADERS and into their individual checks where we can >>specifically test for these dependencies. See for instance XShm.h (only >>a vague quide). >> >> >I'll try, but I only have solaris machines at work, and this is far from >my main focus on Wine (I'm working on BiDi, if you remeber correctly >;-). I am only looking into solaris at all because at work we use some >windows compat library for solaris (don't remeber the name, but it >wasn't mainsoft's) for the GUI part of the product. I am sprinkling the >idea to the Unix GUI team here to check Wine out. > >The response so far has been moderetely positive. (using those compat >libraries incures a non-trivial per-seat license that goes to MS, as >well as horrible support. They have been complaining that response time >on one incident was ONE YEAR!!!! and the idea of having the sources to >the library itself were appealing to them). The main problem was that it >would take over two days of effort just looking into it, and they cannot >spare the time. > >I just D/L the CVS to see what it would take. I am also not an autoconf >expert. If I have more spare time at work, I will have a look at that. >If not, I'd rather spend my Wine dev time trying to figure out how the >fr1661n6 h377 one is supposed to go about implementing the humoungous >monster that is GetCharacterPlacement without creating a 500 lines function. > > Shachar