RE: xalan on Solaris

["Gordon, Jeff A. (C)" <Je...@fmgc.com>]

I have compiled xalan/xerces on a sun platform. I actually compiled 3.0 of
xalan because I was not able to download the complete source for 4.0 (the
tar file has a checksum error).
I just removed the statement
ifeq ($(PLATFORM), LINUX)
from the Makefile, changed 
-fpic to
-fPIC
changed Include/GCCDefinitions.hpp
to not define XALAN_OLD_AUTO_PTR,

Recompiled xerces using gcc.

The biggest problem I had was with a bug in the Solaris assembler. gcc
sometimes generates names to long for the assembler. The best way to fix
this is to recompile the gcc compiler to not generate long names. The only
place I had a problem was with the command line parameter processing in the
TestXSLT sample. Since this didn't affect my project, I simply ignored it.

Hope this helps.


>>will, xalan compile and operate on other unices like solaris? has anyone
tried?