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| author | Michael Kostylev <michael.kostylev@gmail.com> | 2010-03-28 20:16:09 +0000 |
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| committer | Diego Biurrun <diego@biurrun.de> | 2010-03-28 20:16:09 +0000 |
| commit | e69decaef4da0c644955ff2ea5d3a71fd7dd44f9 (patch) | |
| tree | a4d376d164099a4b23e4cef89d1e08d50b94edea | |
| parent | 6aaa9bc9b55237d5806f00f6f887e584aa210400 (diff) | |
| download | ffmpeg-e69decaef4da0c644955ff2ea5d3a71fd7dd44f9.tar.gz | |
Clarify (Open)Solaris section of the documentation.
patch by Michael Kostylev, michael.kostylev gmail com
Originally committed as revision 22713 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/general.texi | 14 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/general.texi b/doc/general.texi index 5c3a3d4b5a..17c46ab5f9 100644 --- a/doc/general.texi +++ b/doc/general.texi @@ -740,9 +740,17 @@ For information about compiling FFmpeg on OS/2 see @section (Open)Solaris GNU Make is required to build FFmpeg, so you have to invoke (@file{gmake}), -standard Solaris Make will not work. Depending on your system configuration -you might be using a non-POSIX-compatible default shell. Ensure that a -POSIX-compatible shell is in your path or invoke it directly. +standard Solaris Make will not work. When building with a non-c99 front-end +(gcc, generic suncc) add either @code{--extra-libs=/usr/lib/32/values-xpg6.o} +or @code{--extra-libs=/usr/lib/64/values-xpg6.o} to the configure options +since the libc is not c99-compliant by default. The probes performed by +configure may raise an exception leading to the death of configure itself +due to a bug in the system shell. Simply invoke a different shell such as +bash directly to work around this: + +@example +bash ./configure +@end example @section Windows |