[osol-code] Re: Updated gnutopkg

2005-07-25 Thread Shawn Walker
On 7/23/05, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Using this script along with a piece of software that uses the GNU > auto* tools will make packaging pretty darn easy. The hard part is > getting the project to compile usually. I've since further enhanced it to account for "copyright", "depend

Re: [osol-code] ON build 18 is available

2005-07-25 Thread Robert W. Fuller
Ditto. Sync'ing up now. Dennis Clarke wrote: > On 7/25/05, Keith M Wesolowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Mike Kupfer is off today, but build 18 is now available via SDLC. > > > Excellent. I was looking forward to this code drop. > > Thank you Keith :-) > > > Dennis Clarke > Director

Re: [osol-code] ON build 18 is available

2005-07-25 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 7/25/05, Keith M Wesolowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Kupfer is off today, but build 18 is now available via SDLC. Excellent. I was looking forward to this code drop. Thank you Keith :-) Dennis Clarke Director and Admin for blastwave.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

[osol-code] ON build 18 is available

2005-07-25 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
Mike Kupfer is off today, but build 18 is now available via SDLC. Other download options will follow. Here are the release notes: OpenSolaris Buildable Source @(#)ReleaseNotes1.132005/07/22 SMI Note: if this is your first OpenSolaris installation

Re: [osol-code] Finding max unamelen related bugs...

2005-07-25 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 20:14, Peter Memishian wrote: > > However, I think that fixing up Solaris to support long usernames is > > definitely worthwhile and long overdue. > > there's a longstanding open bug on this: 4109819. there's also a long_usernames keyword which should be placed on other bu

Re: [osol-code] Finding max unamelen related bugs...

2005-07-25 Thread Peter Memishian
> However, I think that fixing up Solaris to support long usernames is > definitely worthwhile and long overdue. there's a longstanding open bug on this: 4109819. -- meem ___ opensolaris-code mailing list opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org https://ope

Re: [osol-code] Finding max unamelen related bugs...

2005-07-25 Thread Peter C. Tribble
Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> noted: >>> >>>while fixing some lint indicated bugs in acltext.c for star, >>>I found that acltext.c still uses the historical LOGNAME_MAX >>>which is defined to 8. >>> >>>Since some time, /var/adm/utmp id no longer used so the maximum >>>user/group name length n

Re: [osol-code] Library Question

2005-07-25 Thread Shawn Walker
For those that couldn't see Rod's great explanation (I'm guessing his CC to the list bounced): -- Forwarded message -- From: Rod Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jul 24, 2005 9:45 PM Subject: Re: [osol-code] Library Question To: Peter Memishian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Shawn Walker <

[osol-code] Re: Library Question

2005-07-25 Thread Jürgen Keil
> I've always wondered...why are shared libraries installed under *NIX > operating systems with the executable bit set? IIRC, the executable bit is used by the SunOS VM subsystem as a hint when looking for free memory. The VM subsystem prefers to free pure data pages (files without the executab

Re: [osol-code] Updated gnutopkg

2005-07-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I took Philip Brown's gnutopkg script that's as Phil describes it: > "A script to AUTOMATICALLY package any GNU autoconf/automake based software" > > and basically made it more robust in that it handles Makefile and > makefile, as well as providing more in

Re: [osol-code] Library Question

2005-07-25 Thread Paul Durrant
On 25 Jul 2005, at 01:04, Peter Memishian wrote: an excellent question -- and to add insult to injury, attempting to execute them is far from pretty: $ /lib/libc.so usage: ld.so.1 [-e option,...] dynamic-object [object args,...] Killed $ /lib/libnsl.so Illegal Instruction (core dumped)