Neil,
I am a great believer in maximizing ROI - heck, we are a Solaris shop
and we are still running Solaris 2.8 in production but even I know that
Solaris 2./_*8*_/ is obsolete (vintage as Sun support now refers to it).
However, with all due respect - you really need to put Solaris 2.6 out
to pasture - you will be fighting a seriously uphill battle in a vain
attempt to update libraries due to the many dependencies that exist. I
can assure you that you don't want to attempt to replace libc.so (BTDT)
as it is likely that the library dependency quagmire will quickly lead
to it. BTW, You will need to boot from your cdrom to recover from
tampering with libc.so.
We are in the process of jumping from Solaris 2.8 (sparc) onto the
Solaris 10 (x86) wagon and while I was initially uncomfortable with the
amount of change that has occurred to the boot process (SMF, etc) I have
also come to appreciate all of the additional benefits that it offers,
such as containerization (an efficient form of virtualization) and the
fact that the boot process is now more a more parallel event, that
ipfilters and dtrace are included and too many other benefits to mention
here.
However, if budget is a concern - I have a Sun AXi 480MHz system with 1G
RAM running Solairs 2.8 that I would be glad to sell you for
$100+shipping ;-)
Happy Holidays!
---
Bob
Neil Dickey wrote:
Oscar del Rio <[email protected]> wrote in response to me:
OS: Solaris2.6
I believe you need at least Solaris 8. I just compiled 2007d on a Solaris 8
machine without any errors ("gmake gso"). Solaris 2.6 did not have some
libraries or APIs that are needed.
Thanks, Oscar. I just found a copy of imap-2004g and it compiled fine, so
you may be right. It seems odd that there wouldn't be something to indicate
this in the FAQ, though, especially when there's such a good deal written
there about the need for backwards compatibility. The header "What do I
need to build this software with SSL on unix?" says only that one needs to
compile and install OpenSSL first. There's no hint there or anywhere that
some versions of unix are apparently no longer ported.
Is there any way around this? Does anyone know what the missing libraries
are? Can they be upgraded?
Best regards,
Neil Dickey, Ph.D.
email: [email protected]
Research Associate/Sysop
Geology Department
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, Illinois, U.S.A.
60115
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