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.
patchadd is non-functional on older OpenSolaris releases, removed
completely in OpenSolaris 2009.06. There is NO WAY to install
SVR4 patches to any software, not even unbundled compilers, on an
OpenSolaris machine.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
