Yesterday I had a dickens of a time getting an Open Solaris (nv 95) sparc machine prepped for building Open Solaris. I tried following the posted directions carefully, but I was frustrated that there were a couple of errors and missing steps.
Since I did finally get it working, I thought I'd post what I found here and hopefully the directions can be updated or others with similar problems will stumble across this post. 1. This is not really a problem for me, but... http://opensolaris.org/os/community/tools/sun_studio_tools/sun_studio_11_SPARC_special_May2008/ lists extra patches can only be obtained with a sunsolve account. My company has one and I was able to get the patches but if I didn't I would be limited to gcc only? The page does mention a new install image in the works, I guess its just not available yet. 2. The Sun Studio 11 installer does not work with Java 1.6+. Solaris Express: Community Release comes with Java 1.6. Downloading and installing Java 1.5 fixes this problem. This should be documented somewhere. Here http://opensolaris.org/os/community/tools/sun_studio_tools/sun_studio_11_tools/ perhaps. Am I the only one to have run in to this? It was very frustrating and tricky to track down. 3. The download/install instructions for Sun Studio 11 (http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/cc/downloads/ss11/downloadinstx.pdf) claim the installer can be invoked with -nodisplay option for a non-gui install. This does not work (perhaps just on the sparc version). The installer script at the top level does not pass its arguments on to the CD1/installer CD2/installer scripts it invokes. I was able to fix this by editing the top level installer to call the other installer scripts with "$@". Hope this feedback is useful. Chris Dodd This message posted from opensolaris.org
