note build workaround for Sol10/gcc 3.4

diff --git a/README b/README
index 19cd5a47045d0890841e665fdc38cdea746ef00f..7992041d1fe4bfa0a19d1f42db52834dc5ee7b02 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -307,6 +307,12 @@ Solaris: When using Sun's C compiler with threads, at least on Solaris
        4. Modify the installed GCC specs file, adding -R options into the
           *link: section.
 
+        The complex object fails to compile on Solaris 10 with gcc 3.4 (at
+        least up to 3.4.3).  To work around it, define Py_HUGE_VAL as
+        HUGE_VAL(), e.g.:
+
+          make CPPFLAGS='-D"Py_HUGE_VAL=HUGE_VAL()" -I. -I$(srcdir)/Include'
+
 Linux:  A problem with threads and fork() was tracked down to a bug in
        the pthreads code in glibc version 2.0.5; glibc version 2.0.7
        solves the problem.  This causes the popen2 test to fail;