On Wed, 2 May 2012 18:25:25 +0100 Edwin Beasant wrote:
> Hello there to all members!
> As you may or may not be aware, after the Oracle acquisition of Sun,
> many things changed, and I have ended up dealing extensively with ksh93 on
> Solaris 11.
> This used to be part of the more internal OS/network consolidation of code,
> but recently i have moved it to the more third-party-friendly Userland code
> consolidation. This code consolidation does things a little bit differently
> to ON, with the result that it is much easier to work with and contribute to
> the open-source community:
> We have, over time, amassed a number of bug fixes for the 2011 release
> of ast-base, some of which have been addressed in the 2012 release of the
> ast-base package. I would like to be able to contribute any that you may
> consider useful for integration into the codebase, if that is at all possible.
all patches and bug fixes are welcome
especially the ones that have been redacted since the oracle transition
> I would also like to ask if it would be possible to get some pointers
> for porting the ast-base package more properly to compile in 64 bit mode
> under Solaris 11: Solaris 11 no longer boots a 32 bit kernel, and although it
> can easily run the 32-bit version, a matching 64 bit version would be more
> elegant and simpler to maintain long term - It would probably need a compiler
> wrapper similar to the sgi platform to correctly compile with the Studio
> compiler, and as a starter, I would love to know how I would set about
> integrating one to the INIT package and the appropriate probes?
have you tried to build it using a cc that defaults to 64 bit objects?
we try to coax the right thing out of cc without wrappers
if it didn't work where did it fall short?
if that doesn't work to your satisfaction a cc wrapper is probably the way to go
first make sure
bin/package
lists an appropriate ast hosttype
probably something like
sol11.i386-64
bin/package uses cc along with uname to determine the hosttype
(ast hosttypes do not get as detailed as say gcc host identifiers)
then create a wrapper script
src/cmd/INIT/cc.sol11.i386-64
use one of the other cc.* wrappers as a starting point
in general they use ancient sh constructs to avoid portability problems
> We're interested in supporting ksh93 (primarily) and the ast-base
> package in general, and indeed it is our default scripting shell under
> Solaris 11 :-)
the more heavy users the better
thanks
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