>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.
I think that that is an issue: while we're not generating patch* patches, it makes it impossible to install SVr4 packages based products as you cannot install the patches for those products. Casper
