Tip for compiling agent on Solaris 10 sparc

[acravens]

I just wasted two days trying to get zabbix_agentd to compile on Solaris 10 using the recommended configure options:

./configure --enable-static --enable-agent

It turns out that Solaris 10 sparc will not allow you to --enable-static because it does not ship with static libraries, only dynamic libraries. Once I remove the --enable-static option it compiled. I found this information on Sun's web site and through Google searches.

I was able to use --enable-static on Solaris 10 x86. Not sure if the Sun intends to remove the static libs from the x86 archetecture in the future. I hope this saves someone else some time.

[disgruntleddutch]

well it makes sense that the sparc platform is using dynamic libs since its supporting various sparc procs and different architectures (sun4u & sun4v) vs the single platform on the x86 side.....