James C. McPherson wrote: > 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.
No, because patchadd, et al. aren't distributed for OpenSolaris 200x releases. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker
