Building on Solaris 8 and other older OSes

[Raymond Toy]

On 8/8/10 4:02 PM, Raymond Toy wrote:
>  A short note on how to use the current Solaris 10 binaries to make an
> executable for older versions like Solaris 8.  This idea can also
> probably be extended to older versions of OSes like, perhaps, FreeBSD.
> 
> Since we distribute lisp.a which is an archive library of all of the C
> objects that are used to create the C runtime (almost), we have an easy
> way to rebuild on older OSes.  Just extract the contents of lisp.a.  Get
> the source code for exec-init.c (or create by hand since it's only 2
> lines long for declaring and initializing two variables).  Then just
> compile exec-init.c and link it with all of the other object files and
> the right libraries.  This should give a working lisp executable.  I did
> this on Solaris 8, and everything seems to work.

I'm mistaken.  This doesn't work.  After doing the above, you need to do
load-world, which means you need all of the fasls used to create the
core.  Bummer.  We don't normally ship the fasls, which would add
another 15 MB or so (compressed).

Ray