James C. McPherson wrote: > 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 > -- > I was searching for that, its really hard to find. Now that I found it I would like to ask if someone could expand on the rules for accessing that farm. Is it for people that work on accepted projects only, like kde-solaris ? Is it accessible also for people that port software to opensolaris and would like a testrun ? If yes I'd like to add a doc for that to the software porters community.
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