I have been working on porting 1.23.5... I have made changes to support Solaris
in the build system and have successfully built the binary. However it does
not run properly and both dbx and gdb crash while trying to load the binary. I
read somewhere that gcc 4 is required now... so I tried to
The gdb stack looks pretty useless... the dbx one looks like it is crashing in
the demangler.
This is what pstack shows for gdb:
core 'core' of 809:
/export/home/nuke/SecondLife-i686-1.23.4.123908/bin/do-not-directly-ru
fefd0704 rtld_db_dlactivity (feffb148, 3, 0)
fefd00ec setup(80479
I have been working on porting SecondLife 1.23.4 to OpenSolaris... I got it
built but it crashes. So clearly the first thing I would try is loading it in a
debugger. I loaded it in gdb (since it was built with gcc) and gdb segfaults
while trying to run it. So I try Sun's debugger dbx and i
Bart Smaalders wrote:
> There are lots of proposals for someone else to do work, but few
> volunteers stepping up to the plate. I'm suggesting that those who
> argue in favor of extensive changes to the existing Solaris commands
> can demonstrate their commitment and interest by helping out. It's
Dave Miner wrote:
> We're not going to do that in the installer, as it's a question too
> subtle for explanation there, and it isn't something that is absolutely
> necessary to get the system up and running. For OpenSolaris, we've
> chosen the default which makes the most sense for the most users,
Nicolas Williams wrote:
> The Indiana team evidently want GNU utils be preferred, and evidently
> would like to see the compatibility issues with Solaris utils fixed.
>
> I see no problem with that, provided those issues are addressed, and
> I'm sure they will be.
If so, the "native Solaris" vers
Jason King wrote:
> As I think has been mentioned before, I seriously doubt if you talk to
> most any UNIX user they are one bit about GNU grep vs Solaris grep vs
> BSD grep (or gnu tar vs solaris tar vs bsd tar vs star). What they
> care about is 'grep -r works' 'tar -xvzf works' etc.
Exactly. T
