I am working on giving 10u10 a try. Thanks for your advice. Since I am going to the trouble with 2.2+ Gigs of DVD iso download for 10u10, does anyone have a reason NOT to go for Solaris11?
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dagobert Michelsen Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 4:14 PM To: Questions and discussions Subject: Re: [csw-users] How to get libmlib.so.2 (SUNW_2.3)? Hi George, Am 28.08.2012 um 19:38 schrieb "Wyche, George PW" <[email protected]>: > I cannot run unstable's emacs because ALL of our Solaris workstations lack > libmlib.so.2 (SUNW_2.3). > > What are my options to resolve this? > 1. I could undertake to become part of the Oracle empire. > I sort of started down that path by registering for Support so I could > find out if the patch which is mentioned in one of the google search results > was freeware. I got nowhere. I couldn't even figure out how much it would > cost to obtain it. So much for that path at the moment. You can update to Solaris 10u10 which has libmlimb.so.2 > 2. Don't use unstable? > All of our Solaris workstations are prohibited from connection to the > internet. Thus I must add CSW*gz packages to a particular workstation to be > the repository of sparc/5.10/* files. Those files get there by first doing > pkgutil --install <desired_program> and observing the NEW packages and > UPDATES packages, then using a windows box to download them to a local PC > directory, then copying them from there to sparc/5.{8/9/10} and finally, > where appropriate, 5.10> ln -s ../5.9/<blah>.gz As you might imagine the > first poor guy (me) to engage "unstable" spends the entire day moving files > and installing programs. > Only to encounter libmlib.so.2 failure at the end of the day. > ---- > There is no reasonably easy way to back off from unstable with assurance > that any other choice will be successful, no? We did have some snapshots of unstable in the past which we probably will have in the future. > 3. Try Solaris 9? > All of this only happened when we bought a used 2500 and attempted to clone > one of the workstations with Solaris 10 on it. Sure enough all DID work until > there was a program that clone was missing, and I wanted to add it. I have > never, ever downloaded the 5.10 packages required for that program > (subversion). Classic problem. You want something new? You have to upgrade > over 90% of the packages. My old, dead workstation was doing subversion from > Solaris5.8. OpenCSW has abandoned Solaris 5.8. Yes, can't live in the last > century. I am loathe to go with Solaris 9 for pretty much the same reason. > 4. Abandon openCSW? > That would be a brave step for me after this many years. > 5. Try OpenSolaris? > Is that project even still alive? We are currently testing map files for linking with old Solaris versions and emacs may be a good candidate to link to an older release. Feel free to join #opencsw on IRC free node for updates. Best regards -- Dago -- "You don't become great by trying to be great, you become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process." - xkcd #896 _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/users
