Greg/Matt: Actually if you tried to build GNOME on Solaris 9/10, you probably would find it would mostly work. You would probably run into some issues where the code and/or spec files would need some tweaking.
You would also probably find that most a11y functionality would not work properly since it depends on various X-extensions that are probably not available on Solaris 9. But if you don't find a11y important, then this may not bother you. Note that GNOME does depend pretty heavily on the XRender extension. I'm not sure if that is on Solaris 9 - if not you may have problems. Also, some functionality probably wouldn't work so well. Some programs depend on HAL (and therefore don't even work in Nevada yet) such as the CD player, CD ripper, CD burning support in Nautilus, and support for USB/firewire/camera media. Programs such as the CD player could probably be hacked to work on Solaris 9 if anyone had the interest - or people could probably get by using the older versions of programs like the CD player. You may also find that you need to build newer versions of various GNU components that aren't really a part of the GNOME stack (such as libexpat, libxml, libxslt, etc.). I'm sure that we'd accept patches and modifications to the spec files needed for building on Solaris 9 if they were written with proper #ifdefs so that the patches needed for Solaris 9 were not applied to Nevada. For that matter, the GNOME community would likely also accept well written patches needed for Solaris 9/10 support. If you have an interest in doing this, I'd certainly be happy to help you analyze and work around any build issues you run into. Brian >> 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..... JDS 4 won't even build on S10... > > JDS 3 however gnome 2.6 may build on S9, I don't know the exact > dependencies someone may be able to comment on that... > > > Matt > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
