Martin Man wrote: > Erast Benson wrote: > >> On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 15:07 +0200, Martin Man wrote: >> >>> Nico Sabbi wrote: >>> >>>> what I'd really like to have in some more documentation, especially >>>> guides on how to package ON stuff (not all of it is available in Nexenta, >>>> including pieces that are CDDL such as the xsvc driver, BTW why?) >>>> so that we poor users can contribute more >>>> >>> yes, the scripts to compile & package nevada should be available >>> publicly in the long run, I personally would like them to become part of >>> the repository itself, much in the same way as kernel-package does for >>> linux kernel. Just FYI: I have already tried to compile Nevada under >>> Nexenta to see what are the external dependencies and gotchas in order >>> to have Nexenta self-contained. >>> >>> Hopefully Erast will give us more clue regarding the ON build scripts. >>> >> I'd say, it would make sense to make ON compilable on Nexenta first, >> workout issues and come up with diff first. And after that I will try to >> find some time to put everything together as a buildable sunw source >> package. Currently those scripts are very much SXCR specific and needs >> to be fixed to work properly in native env too. >> > > My initial testing reveals that the patch to build ON on Nexenta must > address usage of sed/awk/echo, these are fine and just one-liners in > multiple locations. What is however not that easy are build-depends for > certain ON parts. I have identified the evil to be net-snmp, glib, dbus, > all of them have headers conveying info how they were compiled, so using > nexenta versions of these packages is not easy yet, I'm trying to use > SXCE versions now. The same applies for GNU as. I hope to put the > summary to my blog as soon as I have a full build. At the moment around > 30 components are still failing to build due to various issues. > > Which means, that it might make sense to publish the ON->dpkg scripts as > soon as possible and simply using SXCE zone to build ON for now... > > what do you think? > Martin >
I know it's not open source but what about using SUNWspro compilers instead of GNU? They are decent IMHO. -Tim _______________________________________________ gnusol-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/gnusol-devel
