Solaris (2.5 and up) has its own version of X in /usr/openwin, its own version of make in /usr/ccs/bin/make, and its own compiler (to be purchased separately) which, if you have it, is available in /opt/SUNWspro/bin. Solaris does not provide the XPM library, which is required for the Xaw client; it doesn't provide any of the stuff required for imlib, gdk and gtk, either, which is required to build the GTK+ client.

On Solaris, FreeBSD, and some other systems, the default make isn't GNU make. In order to compile with such a make you must either configure --disable-cvs-deps --disable-nls in order to disable the GNU make specific parts of the Makefile.

There may be a number of reasons. Several peoples' answers are here. The most detailed answers, list first, are the best bets with their noted versions. According to resident Gimp on SOlaris guru Jim Harmon, more recent versions (0.99.25 on) should compile easily, but you may need to make a change in /usr/graphics/gtk-config.in: OLD: --libs) echo -L${exec_prefix}/lib -L/usr/openwin/lib -R/usr/openwin/lib \ -lgtk -lgdk -lglib -lXext -lX11 -lsocket -lnsl -lm ;; NEW: (subs.

The following directions are for perl, version 4. Perl, version 5, should compile more easily. If not, send mail to The Perl Porters Mailing List (perl5-porters@nicoh.com) I have built perl on Solaris 2.1, 2.2 beta, and 2.2 FCS. Take /usr/ucb out of your path and do not use any BSD/UCB libraries. Only -lsocket, -lnsl, and -lm are needed. You can use the hint for Solaris 2.0, but the one for 2.1 is wrong. Do not use vfork. Do not use -I/usr/ucbinclude.

Blackbox 0.65.0 and later should compile under Solaris just fine. Older versions try: In the Makefile, add -fpermissive to the CXXFLAGS. Add to the Makefile in src/ and in util/. Apparently, gcc doesn't like the old-style Sun X headers. You may be able to work around this problem, by making a local copy of the headers and fix them (by adding the missing int return type to all the prototypes). Then use:

If you are using Sun's cc on Solaris, you may get errors about identifier redeclaration. Remove the line #include <unistd.h> from count.h. Recompile. You will get some errors about undefined variables. Look at /usr/include/unistd.h and add those defines in count.h. recompile. Answer: That means the user running the web server can not write to the datafile.

Freeciv is a client/server system. To host a game, create computer players, etcetera, you must run the Freeciv server executable. To join a game as a player, you must run the Freeciv client executable and connect to a server. That's right, even when you're playing all by yourself, you have to start up two different executables. On Unix-like systems, the superuser (root) has special privileges, to be used only for system administration.

In order to play Freeciv, you must start the Freeciv client and connect to a server. If you play by yourself, start the Freeciv server first, and connect the client to localhost. On the server command line, use the s command to start the game. The server will now load some configuration files that some of the menus depend on.

Two clients are actively being maintained for Unix/X11. The default client uses the GTK+ windowing toolkit. The original client is based on the Athena widget set ('Xaw'), which is fast and very widely available, but many users find it old-fashioned. The client can also be compiled to use Xaw3d. New features are sometimes implemented in the GTK+ version only, but the Xaw one still has some advantages.

MS Windows support is relatively recent, and still experimental; Freeciv was originally written for Unix and the X window system, and is, in fact, extremely portable across Unix versions. One option is to install a Unix variant on your PC (such as Linux) and use that. The Freeciv client is unable to open a window on your local X display. Are you running an X server at all? Maybe you need to install and run one, or switch to a Freeciv that doesn't need X; see the previous question.

All those "cannot find symbol" error messages mean that you do not have the Java servlet JAR file on your compiler's classpath, so it cannot find the servlet class files. The servlet JAR file is normally distributed with your servlet container. For Apache Tomcat it is a file named {CATALINA_HOME}/common/lib/servlet-api.jar. Add this to your compiler classpath as follows.

Freeciv writes some information to the system log if crashes. To see this, open /Applications/Utilities/Console.app immediately after a crash. Freeciv-related stuff should appear in the bottom. [edit] This bug could appear in 10.3 or incomplete X11 installations. To fix it requires either reinstallation of X11 (see above), or some knowledge of OS X internals. Symlink libXinerama.1.0.dylib to libXinerama.dylib and to libXinerama.1.dylib in that directory [edit]

Solaris(tm) is Sun's name for their UNIX-based user environment, including the UNIX(tm) operating system, window system (X11-based), and other stuff too. Solaris 1.x is a retroactive (marketing?) name for SunOS 4.1.x (x>=1), a version of UNIX that is BSD-like with some SVR4 features, along with OpenWindows 3.0. Solaris 2.x (which is what most everybody means by "Solaris") includes SunOS 5.x, which is an SVR4-derived UNIX, along with OpenWindows 3.x, tooltalk, and other stuff.

Solaris indeed has never been translated directly into English and Stanislaw Lem was dissatisfied with the current translation. Whether this state of affairs will change remains an open question. The following quote from a letter from the Managing Director of the Publishing House Faber and Faber serves as an explanation: "With regard to Solaris, I am afraid that we would not currently be willing either to publish a new translation or to license one."

If you just want to use freefonts or sharefonts, you can copy these files into the appropriate directory (such as /usr/openwin/lib/fonts/freefonts/ or /usr/openwin/lib/fonts/sharefonts/), or merge them with the appropriate fonts.dir and fonts.scale files if you mixed in freefonts and sharefonts with existing fonts: The 'fontadmin' tool is a openwin demo program and sometimes does not exist. To properly add fonts the finagled directory requires fonts.dir, fonts.scale files to exist.

Another program may have turned off the speaker or headphones or whatever interface to which you're listening. Obviously, tkbiff cannot guess which one that might be, so it assumes you are controlling that yourself. To check the status of where sound is going, run audiocontrol and then, for example, if you want sound to come out of the speakers, click on Speaker.

Yes. DenyHosts has been reported to work with Solaris. However, since Solaris uses a pam_afs format for logging messages, you will need to add this line to your configuration file (typically, denyhosts.cfg ).