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-rw-r--r--Build/source/doc/README.solaris12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Build/source/doc/README.solaris b/Build/source/doc/README.solaris
index 9a96a206466..972a2efdba6 100644
--- a/Build/source/doc/README.solaris
+++ b/Build/source/doc/README.solaris
@@ -186,7 +186,17 @@ Additional settings were needed to compile TeX Live with gcc 5.2:
The '--without-iconv' makes sure to avoid linking against libiconv
which is not available on SunOS by default.
-
+luajittex seems to be broken on Solaris 10 x86_64 (even if it works
+with Solaris 11) and doesn't support Sparc, so it was only compiled
+for i386.
+
+upmendex is broken on x86_64 by default. A workaround is to use
+ export CFLAGS='-DU_IS_BIG_ENDIAN=0'
+ export CXXFLAGS='-DU_IS_BIG_ENDIAN=0'
+which seems to result in slower binaries for mysterious reasons.
+For that reason binaries were compiled twice, once without those flags
+and --disable-upmendex and the second time with those two flags,
+but taking just 'upmendex'.
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