On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 3:50 PM, S h i v <shivakumar.gn at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi myosx86, > > > On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 3:13 PM, myosx86 at gmail.com <mail at belenix.org> > wrote: >> I am new to opensolaris ( not new to Linux kernel development though ;-) ) >> I want to install Belenix on my hard drive ! can >> >> I do it in the same way as Opensolaris 2008.05 (i.e., first boot from the CD >> and then install on to Hard drive ) ??
Yes. In fact the OpenSolaris distro was built on top of BeleniX though SUN never mentions that!! >> >> One thing i found out is that Opensolaris (OSol => hereafter :-) ) is >> incredibly difficult to compile compared to Linux kernel . Ummm it is actually dreadfully simple! Assuming you have already downloaded and installed the compiler and downloaded and extracted the source, it takes 5 mins to setup your build environment and kick off the build. >> >> One idea to switch to Belenix is to get quick help on the issues which are >> generic ( Like which compiler version to use, general compilation issues to >> newbies , Java JDK etc ...( I have been struggling with libXm.so.4 etc until >> I saw Vijay Tatkar's blog :-) )) and concentrate on more interesting work >> which will help Belenix grow [I mean feature rich !!] >> ( Hope you all understand !!). >> >> so It would be great if anyone can help me in choosing right tools (compiler >> etc) to compile ON for the first time cleanly ! >> > > Building ON on BeleniX and/or OSol 2008.05 is quite simple. > > For details check http://opensolaris.org/os/community/on/install_quickstart > > On BeleniX install the devel cluster using get-pkgs utility before > proceeding. This installs additional softwares and development headers > necessary for building ON. > You need to download and install sun studio separately. > > Temporarily building ON is little more difficult than what is present > in the link above because ON build tool has transitioned from sun > studio 11 to sun studio 12. > On top of the default SS12 download one needs needs to install a set > of patches to have the compiler tool chain that can build ON. > I have not tried an ON build recently but I think we can still use SUN Studio 11. It is not possible to apply the patches in either OpensSolaris distro or BeleniX since the patches use the legacy install and patching framework that are not present in OpenSolaris. In addition before attempting a build you will have to unset /usr/gnu/bin from the PATH. Your PATH environment variable will have to be set to: /usr/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/sfw/bin -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/
