Re: [Freeciv] Solaris compiling problems (was: getpwuid)

[Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 11:49:34AM +0100, Reinier Post wrote:

> So it doesn't compile 'out of the tarball'.  Also, the latest CVS version
> I tried seems to require gcc (instead of Sun /opt/SUNWspro/cc).
> If I knew of a simple remedy I'd include it, but I think it's something
> to look at before 1.8 comes out.  (If it isn't already.)

gcc is not required to build freeciv, it is only used to make the
dependancies.  IIRC (I'm not at home right now) a quick fix is to mkdir
.deps in each of the source directories.

The Makefiles ought to be fixed to make the dependancy building rules
null if gcc is not found.

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