Dennis Clarke wrote: >> Alan Coopersmith wrote: >>> Dennis Clarke wrote: >>>> Now then ... since the OpenSolaris.org website is entirely in >>>> the hands of >>>> Sun employees ... will someone put the README.opensolaris back >>>> ? please ? >>>> >>>> --> this thing looks dead : >>>> http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/current/README.opensolaris >>> That's up to the ON gatekeepers to fix, so lets see what happens if we >>> cc on-discuss so they actually see the message. > > That will probably help immensely. Thank you. > >> The change to using xwiki broke the mkreadme_osol script >> that is run as part of tonic closedbins-generating nightly >> builds. Mike Kupfer has a fix for this coming soon. >> >> In the meantime, the snv_126 version is ok to use: >> >> http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/b126/README.opensolaris > > Call me old fashioned by I like to have a simple text README that says "do > this to build that" and I had a cron job fetch it for me. > > I did notice that it is wrong in a few places. > > Things like : > > 2. compiler (Sun Studio 11 is the preferred compiler, and it is free > for OpenSolaris community members. You can also use gcc; more on > that below.) > > This page disagrees : > http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+tools/sun_studio_tools > > Where it says : > > Compiler/patch information for ON builds > > Sun Studio 12: > > * September 2009 download for Sun Studio 12 software and patches: > Required for ON build 124 and later. See Sun Studio 12 Compilers > and Tools for the OpenSolaris Common Build Environment (CBE) > > The next bits still refer to tarballs at http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads > > Really, I think it needs a re-write to point out little things like use hg > to fetch the sources etc. Not too sure whom to contact on things like > that. Derek Cicero perhaps?
No, it's from $SRC/tools/opensolaris/README.opensolaris.tmpl, so I've filed 6897972 README.opensolaris has out of date compiler info James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
