On 23 Jun 2006, at 13:34, Matt Keenan wrote: > Greg Pierce wrote: >> Anyone attempted a build of JDS on Solaris 9? >> >> I'm stuck in an environment that cannot upgrade to Solaris 10 (let >> alone Nevada), but am running into limitations with Gnome 2.0.2/ >> GTK 2.0. >> >> Before wasting a ton of time/effort on building it, is using >> Solaris 9 pretty much a deal-breaker? >> > > For JDS 4 (Vermillion/Gnome 2.14) don't bother, unless you want to > spend a huge amount of time back porting a load of required > liobraries.....
Or, you if you just need recent versions of GNOME/gtk rather than JDS per se, you could go the blastwave route: http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson at sun.com Java Desktop System Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
