On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Alan DuBoff wrote: > But there is no reason to change what they have, it works and compiles > with studio as-is. configure seems to work on Solaris.
The GSSAPI and LDAP support does not work on Solaris though. I imagine I'm not the only Alpine user who needs LDAP to access the corporate addressbook.. > We merely need a way to accomplish that and use the libraries on the system > so we don't duplicate. Ok, I'm not entirely familiar with IPS, but that sounds a good goal. I'm not sure it can be achieved through upstream though (if by 'upstream' you mean the original sources of software). > I don't know. AFAIK everything is going in /usr, but it's not clear on what > sfwnv and/or contrib will allow, the lines are fuzzy to me. I think the lines are pretty clear. Paths are architectural, and the ARCs have come to the view that programme binaries should be in /usr/bin (normally). > I have always referred to the companion cd as sfw, so that is > confusing. It has served me well, and been a good resource in the > past. It also provided the sources, which was important to me. In that > regard it hasn't failed me at all.:-) Ah, the 'CCD' (is that what it's called?). regards, -- Paul Jakma, Solaris Networking Sun Microsystems, Scotland http://opensolaris.org/os/project/quagga tel: EMEA x73150 / +44 15066 73150
