[tlbuild] dvisvgm build failures on Solaris

Henri Menke henri at henrimenke.de
Fri Feb 19 09:00:46 CET 2021


On 19/02/21, 05:31, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 at 00:04, Karl Berry wrote:
> >
> > Mojca - do you know for sure if the number of users of your binaries on
> > this version of Solaris is > 0?
> 
> We just got a complaint about a broken tlmgr a few days ago:
>     https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2021-February/046457.html
> The platform is going to be officially supported for 3 more years.
> 
> If this was something that would require extreme measures to get
> fixed, it would be a different story, but it looks pretty
> straightforward to fix.

If I'm not mistaken you can just unconditionally add -lrt for all
platforms.  Since, as you said, newer GCC adds this implicitly anyway
there should be no harm in adding it manually again.

Cheers, Henri

> 
> I suspect that CentOS 6.9 (with end of life two months ago) would have
> the exact same problem, for example.
> Or Debian 7 (we use Debian 8 to build TL though).
> 
> Mojca


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