From 07fc84abb78a161542e4fea7435c1184ccb6ecd7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Floyd Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2025 20:09:14 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Illumos: mention the build-essential package in README.solaris --- README.solaris | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.solaris b/README.solaris index 42adb0b0c9..1815eb4a4a 100644 --- a/README.solaris +++ b/README.solaris @@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ Requirements Running `uname -r` has to print '5.11'. - Recent GCC tools are required, GCC 3 will probably not work. GCC version 4.5 (or higher) is recommended. +- On Illumos you can install the 'build-essential' metapackage which + includes GCC and many other developer tools. - Solaris ld has to be the first linker in the PATH. GNU ld cannot be used. There is currently no linker check in the configure script but the linking phase fails if GNU ld is used. Recent Solaris/illumos distributions are ok. -- 2.47.3