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Re: Quick update re: Sun compiler


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  • From: "RL 'Bob' Morgan" <>
  • To: Scott Cantor <>
  • Cc: "'Shibboleth Design Team'" <>
  • Subject: Re: Quick update re: Sun compiler
  • Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 17:08:27 -0500 (EST)


Seems like Solaris would have a native uuidgen (and lib).

- RL "Bob"

On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Scott Cantor wrote:

> There's at least one library we're using, the libuuid code from Ted
> T'so's e2fsprogs, that won't build very easily if at all with Sun's
> compiler because his autoconf support is not very effective, and he has
> some gcc-specific C in it.
>
> It's in C, so it's not a C++ issue, it's just open source code that
> expects to be built with gcc.
>
> If they flat out can't run any gcc-built code period, it's going to
> create more work for them, at best, and may require us reimplementing
> something. OTOH, I'd rather have my own UUID-generator inside the code
> anyway, I just haven't had time to work on it.
>
> So far the big C++ link problem I was having with it is fixed, because
> we did a lot of research into libtool while working on autoconf, so I
> know about the issue now.
>
> -- Scott
>
>
>

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