William Stein wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:25 AM, > Juanjo<juanjose.garciarip...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> On Aug 28, 3:01 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kir...@onetel.net> >> wrote: >>> Using the first release of Solaris 10 should iron out any other >>> portability issues, since perhaps our build process makes some >>> assumptions about Solaris 10 which are not valid in the initial release. >> You also mentioned that the setup in this machine would be >> intentionally less polished (i.e. GNU make is not default, and other >> things you set up for T2). Would it be possible to evolve the T2 setup >> towards something more out-of-the-box? Or is it unrealistic to build >> all Sage components without tweaking the installation of a standard >> Solaris system?
An interesting question. Doing this on 't2' so it affects everyone (i.e. the global zone) would be a nightmare, as nobody would build Sage. They would lack the tools they need, like a recent gcc. However, if you personally would find that useful on 't2', I could easily create you a new account, with a different user name to do this. To do this as realistically as possible, you would need a new home directory, then set the environment as you see fit. Let me know if that would be useful - it will only take me a few minutes to do. There would be some things available to you, like the Sun compilers in /opt/SUNWspro, which would not normally be available on a new system. To set up a more realistic 'out of the box' setup, it would be necessary to create a zone for this. > Also, would it be possible to install Solaris 10 version 1 in a > "Solaris Zone" on T2 so that it would be always one, etc.? (I don't > even know if that makes sense.) No, that would not be possible. Solaris zones uses the same kernel as the 'global zone'. When you install a zone, you do not need any operating system disks. Necessary files are copies from the global zone. Zones do not have the independence that programs like virtual box provide. As I pointed out before, virtualbox does not run on SPARC/ Nor would it be possible to run 't2' on the first release of Solaris 10 - the minimum supported version of that hardware is later than the March 2005 release of Solaris. If you wanted to set up a machine like this, it would almost certainly have to be done using a used server, as I very much doubt anything currently sold new by Sun would run on that release of Solaris 10. dave --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
