Mark: > This is just in case anyone is interested in > JDS gnome 2.22.2 on Solaris 10u5. > > Stefan Teleman from the KDE4 project ported HAL to > Solaris 10u5. Instructions for building it are at: > > http://www.users.on.net/~markwright/?x=entry:entry080603-090223
Great stuff! > Of course this is not the first time JDS gnome has > been built on Solaris 10. Laca built it a year or > so ago and those diffs were added into JDS. I built > JDS gnome 2.20.1 about 6 months ago, but there didn't > seem to be much interest in integrating diffs then. I would recommend working with the upstream GNOME community to get needed patches upstream. Many issues, for example, can be checked for in the configure script, and you can add #ifdef's so the code can reasonably compile on S10. Or perhaps the code can be reworked so it just compiles on both S10 and Nevada without needing any #ifdefs. It is hard to maintain S10 specific patches in our spec-files build environment. As such patches get old and fail to commit, it is often not clear how to refactor patches as the upstream GNOME code changes. By getting the patches upstream, you avoid these sorts of issues. I'd just submit them to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ and let the upstream community maintainers know to fix the problems that you identified. Then when the next release of GNOME comes out, it should be easier to compile on S10. Brian
