Brian said > > > Yes, they have a S9 version (and had it from the start). > > > However, ximian gives an installer error. I ran truss > > > on it and they're doing a uname() system call and rejecting it. > > > > The outdated 1.4 binaries from sun? > > No, the gnome 2.0 has been out for quite some time now. > The gnome 2.0 for solaris 9 was available back in March. > For solaris 8 it was out before that... > I've been waiting since March for Evolution to be ready. > I thought that would have happened a long time ago.
You don't say if you're trying with Solaris 9 for X86 or Sparc; but I can tell you that Evolutions works under the latter (because I'm using it for this e-mail). It seems you need to do three things (see below for details). First, compile a little program to "fiddle" the uname; then use a sed command to do something similar to the download; then ignore the installation failure message. After that (and making sure your colour depth is 24 bit) it all runs. -- Regards Andy, G8TQH http://www.rickham.net/ --------------------------------------- To get the Ximian loader to download Evolution onto a Solaris 9 machine (courtesy of Richard L Hamilton) First compile the following program (uname.c) from Richard. This is done twice -- once as per the comment in the source code and the result placed in /usr/lib. Then (if you're running on 64 bit Sparc) with the -m64 flag as well; putting that into /usr/lib/sparcv9. If you don't have /usr/lib/secure and /usr/lib/sparcv9/secure then: umask 22 mkdir -p /usr/lib/secure cd /usr/lib/secure; ln -s ../uname.so . case `uname -m` in sun4u*) mkdir -p /usr/lib/sparcv9/secure cd /usr/lib/sparcv9/secure; ln -s ../uname.so . ;; esac Here's the source of the program: --- uname.c ------------------------- #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <dlfcn.h> #include <sys/utsname.h> /* compile as: * gcc -fPIC -G -c uname.c * ld -G -o uname.so uname.o */ int uname(struct utsname *name) { static int (*uname_real)(); register int rc; register char *p; if (uname_real==NULL) uname_real = (int (*) ()) dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "uname"); if ((rc = uname_real(name)) != -1) { if ((p=getenv("SYSNAME"))!=NULL) { strncpy(name->sysname,p,SYS_NMLN-1); name->sysname[SYS_NMLN-1]='\0'; } if ((p=getenv("NODENAME"))!=NULL) { strncpy(name->nodename,p,SYS_NMLN-1); name->nodename[SYS_NMLN-1]='\0'; } if ((p=getenv("RELEASE"))!=NULL) { strncpy(name->release,p,SYS_NMLN-1); name->release[SYS_NMLN-1]='\0'; } if ((p=getenv("VERSION"))!=NULL) { strncpy(name->version,p,SYS_NMLN-1); name->version[SYS_NMLN-1]='\0'; } if ((p=getenv("MACHINE"))!=NULL) { strncpy(name->machine,p,SYS_NMLN-1); name->machine[SYS_NMLN-1]='\0'; } } return rc; } --- end source ----------------------------- Then set these environment variables: RELEASE=5.8 VERSION=Generic LD_PRELOAD=uname.so export RELEASE VERSION LD_PRELOAD and instead of running: wget -q -O - http://go-solaris.ximian.com |sh run: wget -q -O - http://go-solaris.ximian.com | \ sed -e 's/2003\.01\.14\.12\.39/9.4.2003.06.13.16.21/' | \ sh in order to make it think you've still got the old Gnome libraries. ----- As Richard said in his mailing/postings: "The installer will seem to fail in the end, after downloading and installing. Nevertheless, /opt/gnome/bin/evolution will be there, and seems to work." It worked for me on my Sparc Station; however, your mileage might vary! _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
