> The development code still blows up badly under Solaris.
...*IF* you use the Solaris "make" and Sun C.
It works fine with the GNU "make" and GCC.
> It's the automagical dependency stuff that breaks it.
>
> The generatee Makefiles are no longer standard (GNU make works, but solaris
> make does not).
I don't think they ever were standard; "Makefile.in" is generated by
automake, and has been for a very long time, and automake doesn't bother
generating generic Makefiles.
In fact, we specifically note this in the README:
NOTE: the Makefile appears to depend on GNU "make"; it doesn't
appear to work with the "make" that comes with Solaris 7 nor the
BSD "make". Perl is also needed to create the man page.
If you decide to modify the yacc grammar or lex scanner, then
you need "flex" - it cannot be built with vanilla "lex" - and
either "bison" or the Berkeley "yacc". Your flex version must
be 2.5.1 or greater. Check this with 'flex -V'.
You must therefore install Perl, GNU "make", "flex", and either
"bison" or Berkeley "yacc" on systems that lack them.
That note was added about a year ago:
revision 1.12
date: 1999/07/04 06:45:53; author: guy; state: Exp; lines: +13 -0
Note that non-GNU "make"s appear not to be able to build Ethereal, and
that you need "flex" and either "bison" or Berkeley "yacc". (XXX -
should notes such as this go in some other file, e.g. INSTALL? I
discovered the "flex" and "bison"/byacc requirement on a Solaris 7
system, but it's probably a problem on other commercial UNIXes, as well,
so it probably doesn't belong in, say, "README.solaris".)
so this is a long-standing issue.
