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

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