solaris build improvement

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 3201420bc..a208d75cc 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@
 
 
 Daniel (24 October)
+- Based on David Hull's fix in bug report 804599, we now check for solaris and
+  gcc in configure and set the -mimpure-text link flag for linking the lib
+  better.
+
 - I've introduced a -t option to the runtests.pl script. With that option set,
   the script runs special "memory torture" tests. For each test command line
   in that section, the script first runs the command line and counts the total
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index c82dba013..44123c4ee 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ This release includes the following changes:
 
 This release includes the following bugfixes:
 
+ o builds better on Solaris 8+
  o --disable-eprt works now
  o improved CA cert verification
  o --anyauth could bug when the first response had no body contents
@@ -79,6 +80,6 @@ advice from friends like these:
  Neil Spring, Siddhartha Prakash Jain, Jon Turner, Vincent Bronner, Shard,
  Jeremy Friesner, Florian Schoppmann, Neil Dunbar, Frank Ticheler, Lachlan
  O'Dea, Dirk Manske, Domenico Andreoli, Gisle Vanem, Kimmo Kinnunen, Andrew
- Fuller, Georg Horn, Andrés García, Dylan Ellicott, Kevin Roth
+ Fuller, Georg Horn, Andrés García, Dylan Ellicott, Kevin Roth, David Hull
  
         Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)