On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:20:48 -0700 Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM> wrote:
> Piotr Jasiukajtis wrote: > >> It sort of belies the whole open concept when the only people that can > >> build the core part of OpenSolaris are Sun employees or people with > >> support contracts (and thus have access to the relevant SS12 patches), > >> even if it's only a temporary condition. > > These patches are available for free but it takes a lot of time to > > prepare a build machine from scratch. > > Especially given that patches cannot be applied to the compilers when > installed on an OpenSolaris machine, which will soon be the only > supported build environment for the Nevada gates, so you'ld have to have > a second machine or VirtualBox instance set up running S10 or SXCE to > install and patch the compilers, and then copy to the OpenSolaris one. If you install the compilers via SysV packaging rather than with "pkg install sunstudio" then I would expect that you could still apply the patches. Regardless, yes, we do need to get the compilers out there as soon as possible. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
