On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 4:08 PM, kernel hacker <myosx86 at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Shivkumar, > I have been struggling since last week owing to confusion as to > which compiler to use. I have all possible patches and compilers downloaded > on my machine. It would be great if you can give me some standard procedure > that you all are using , so that instead of wasting time on getting foxed > on compiler issues I can concentrate on more interesting ideas related to > storage and networking. >
We follow literally what Shiv has mentioned. SS11 is what the Belenix team uses mostly, except if a particular package needs SS12 explicitly. > I started to fix some bugs related to networking / filesystems and landed > up into OpenMotif installation ;-) and getting the MAC address reversed on > Opensolaris 2008.05 ( MAC addr. reversal was suprising :-D ) . > I am not able to run anything that requires gui ( sunstudio etc !! ) > libXm.so.4 liking issue. > You don't really need openmotif. What exactly are you trying to fix in the storage and filesystems space ? The most that the belenix team installs additionally is the JDS (and I myself avoid even that to identify which packages dependencies can be changes from SUNW to SFE if possible). Also, what is this MAC address reversal ? I haven't faced this yet. Could you give me a link to this libXm.so.4 issue, please ? > > So can you please help me with this => > (1) Which compiler you are using ? SS12 or SS11 ?? ( with SS11 there were > issues like SUNWhea etc , which I could fix , but there are other issues .. > ) so opensolaris forum suggested me to install SS12 .. so did , but this > popped up altogether other issues :-) I'll let Moinak answer this one. > (2) Which Java you are using ? Depends upon the individual. I maintain JDK 1.4, 1.5, and 1.6 for for Eclipse related work. > (3) any other tools which I will need ?? > In case you're going to port apps, or build packages yourself, then the pkg tools from http://pkgbuild.sourceforge.net/ would be necessary. Mane sure that you add /opt/pkg to the PATH. > > - myosx86 > :-) > -- Sriram
