Liane Praza wrote:
> James C. McPherson wrote:
>> Tian He wrote:
>>>    1. Is it necessary to add the extra repository in order to build ON?
>>>       I checked the packages contained in the extra repository, none of
>>>       which seems to be related to buidling ON.
>>
>> Yes, it is neccessary to install packages from the extras repo.
>> This is because there are some parts of the ON build which depend
>> on files and libraries which we have to deliver separately due to
>> licensing or other reasons.
>>
>>>    2. Is it necessary to install gcc-dev and java-dev in order to 
>>> build ON?
>>
>> You'll need gcc-dev if you want to do a build with the shadow compiler,
>> or if you do not want to build with Sun Studio.
>>
>> You will need the SUNWj6dev and SUNWmercurial packages which are included
>> with java-dev, but I don't believe you will need the other packages in 
>> that
>> metapackage.
>>
>> Note that you will also need to install the wbem packages, and 
>> postgres8.3.
> 
> Of course, if you just "pkg install osnet" you get everything you need, 
> except for the studio compilers.

sssshhh! that'll make it too easy :-)


James
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