Manish Chakravarty wrote: > 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 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) > > Whatever suits you (zone/bare metal) is fine with me. > Look forward to your comments
Hi Manish, this sounds like exactly the sort of thing that the OpenSolaris test farm was setup to enable. Please have a look at http://opensolaris.org/os/community/testing/ and http://test.opensolaris.org/ James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer, system admin and troubleshooter http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp Find me on LinkedIn @ http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamescmcpherson
