[SunHELP] New Solaris Install and CVS build of Emacs

[Phil Stracchino]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 08:32:58PM -0400, Josh Kuperman wrote:
> I have just installed Solaris 9 on a Sparc 10 and patched it so it's
> current. I downloaded some packages from sunfreeware as they install
> in /usr/local and this works well for how I laid out my partitions.
> 
> I decided it would be nice to build some things from CVS and decided
> to start with emacs. I needed to manually add a lot to my path, and
> add at least on library to LD_LIBRARY_PATH in order to make any
> progress. Anyone have notes on how to do this more smoothly or
> should I be asking for help from the emacs people.


Solaris, for some reason, always excludes /usr/local from the default
dynamic-link path.  I've never understood why.

However, the problem is fixable, and more cleanly fixable than resorting
to LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  Read man crle for details.

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