diff --git a/checkin_notes b/checkin_notes
index 34e98f69f8..2485fd7c75 100755
--- a/checkin_notes
+++ b/checkin_notes
@@ -23224,8 +23224,15 @@ David  24 Jan 2005
     lib/
         error_numbers.h
 
-Rom    20 Jan 2005 (boinc)
+Rom    24 Jan 2005 (boinc)
     - Tag for 4.62 release, all platforms
       boinc_core_release_4_62
 
       NOTE: 4.61 was eaten up in setup testing.
+
+Rom    24 Jan 2005
+    - Modify configure.ac so that I can try and build the client and 
+        clientgui with the static stdc++ library.
+
+    /
+    configure.ac
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index e1178a35d9..1463efad71 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE([linux-release], AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-linux-release],
 
 dnl Some platform specific settings
 case $target in
-   *linux*) 
+   *linux* | *sun* ) 
 	if ( test "${enable_linux_release}" = yes ) && ( test "${enable_client}" != yes ); then
 	   AC_MSG_WARN([--enable-linux-release ignored.
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