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Dennis ---------------------- Original Message ---------------------- Subject: Re: [desktop-discuss] Plea: Can anyone please help me/ lend me a box for KDE4/Solaris builds? From: "Dennis Clarke" <[email protected]> Date: Fri, March 14, 2008 12:20 To: manishchaks at gmail.com Cc: osol-discuss at opensolaris.org desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org --------------------------------------------------------------- > Hi, > > I am _seriously _ falling short on hardware requirements while trying to > build KDE4 on Solaris > I have _one_ machine right now, a sub notebook ( the Acer Aspire 2920) > > It takes more than half a day to go through the build. > Even for incremental builds, turnaround time is way too much! ( min: half an > hour or so ) > > Sun does not have the try-and-buy scheme in India other wise would have > gotten myself a Sun Ultra 25/45 for this purpose. > > (SUNW: if you see this , please start this scheme in India, atleast for > BOSUG ppl doing work on Nevada! ) > > Can anyone lend me a decent x86 box to do the builds ( extra boxes they have > lying around etc) > I dont need the box shipped here; I just need SSH access. > > In case you are interested: > > I need to be able to do the following on the box: > > 1) Install and patch Sun Studio 12 as and when necessary > - Currently it needs to be patched to #124864 > ` - Nevada comes with Sun Studio Express, which needs to be removed. Sun > Studio 12 09/07 is what is needed for the KDE4 builds > > 2) my user should be added to the Software Installation profile > - That's how KBE (Kommon Build Envrionment) works > - SVR4 .pkg's are generated out of the build process. > - They install in /opt (see below) > > 3) KDE4 would install to > - /opt/foss - dependencises > - /opt/qt4 - the Qt4 library > - /opt/kde4 - actual KDE4 libs and binaries. > > Thus my user should be able to write to these dirs > > 4) The actual build process can run in my home dir, so that is not a > problem. > > 5) I would need ~25 gigs of space > - Bare minimum is 20 gigs, just to be safe > - More space would be better. > > 6) I dont know which X86 CPU you have. Faster CPU's are always better :) I have a dual Opteron here and I can zone it and give you all of one CPU if need be. Its a smaller box with 2 GHz procs and 2GB of RAM. Or 4GB .. can't recall. I'll get that going for you. > I am prepared to install SunStudio etc on the system myself if you would > prefer that. > I guess all that I said should be possible inside a zone.( I am not a > Solaris guru) I'm not either .. I mean these days .. who is ? :-) > Whatever suits you (zone/bare metal) is fine with me. > Look forward to your comments Blastwave.org can help you with this. It is what we do :-) I'll power up in the rack and get you SSH access : SunOS Release 5.11 Version snv_79a 64-bit Copyright 1983-2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Use is subject to license terms. charon console login: root Password: Mar 14 12:20:46 charon login: ROOT LOGIN /dev/console Last login: Thu Mar 6 10:01:03 on console Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.11 snv_79a January 2008 # uname -a SunOS charon 5.11 snv_79a i86pc i386 i86pc # cat /etc/release Solaris Express Developer Edition 1/08 snv_79b X86 Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Use is subject to license terms. Assembled 24 January 2008 # psrinfo -pv The physical processor has 1 virtual processor (0) x86 (AuthenticAMD F5A family 15 model 5 step 10 clock 1992 MHz) AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 246 The physical processor has 1 virtual processor (1) x86 (AuthenticAMD F5A family 15 model 5 step 10 clock 1992 MHz) AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 246 # isalist -v amd64 pentium_pro+mmx pentium_pro pentium+mmx pentium i486 i386 i86 # I'll put in Studio 12 if you are okay with that. Oh .. and I'll get the internal Ultra 320 SCSI disks mirrored for you. Anyways .. send me an email OFFLIST with your public key and a user login name and uid number that you like to use. Better yet .. for this purpose I'll get you into the Blastwave build stack and then we 3can hook up the backups and other good stuff. mmmkay ? - Dennis Clarke Blastwave.org
