[tlbuild] (Unwanted?) Dependencies on libfreetype and libexpat on Solaris 10

[Apostolos Syropoulos]

2012/4/25 Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe at math.utah.edu>

> Ettore Aldrovandi remarks that his builds of TeX Live 2012 for 64-bit
> Solaris get references to these libraries:
>
>        2 /usr/sfw/lib/64/libexpat.so.0
>        2 /usr/sfw/lib/64/libfreetype.so.6
>
> I avoid that problem by forcing linking with the lib*.a files; the
> scripts at
>
>        http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/tlbuild/



IMHO this is not a solution since these libraries are standard libraries for
any modern system.

>
>
> A colleague who has been running OpenSolaris and Solaris 11 Express on
> home machines told me yesterday that Oracle now has a gcc-4.5.2
> release in the package system, augmenting the default
> /usr/sfw/bin/gcc, which is the 2005-vintage version 3.4.3.
>
>
Also, please do not forget that many people do use OpenIndiana which
has nothing to do with Oracle. For example, on OpenIndiana you can
install gcc 4.6.0.

A.S.


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