On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Ngin, Chhing wrote: > Does anyone of you know where I can download a binary of HeartBeat for > Solaris 9? I'd like to set it up and evaluate it. I'm not a developer.
I'm not aware that anybody maintains a downloadable heartbeat package for Solaris. I agree that it would be nice if there were such a thing eventually. Note that heartbeat depends on some things not routinely found on a Solaris installation. (An essential is "glib"; also "uuid" which doesn't exist on earlier releases of Solaris. In the "optional but nice" category comes (for instance) python.) So the apparently simple "heartbeat binary" request becomes complicated by these pre-requisites and optionals. The cleanest way to handle all this eventually would probably be to get the pre-requisites available at something like "www.blastwave.org". Having done that, then to maintain a clean "heartbeat" package there also. (So if an end-user were to grab the blastwave heartbeat, the process of handling the prerequisites should (in theory!) be cleanly manageable.) It is actually only within the last few weeks that heartbeat-2.0.x on Solaris has begun to stabilise to the point where we can realistically consider the above. And the number of us actively working on the code maintenance on Solaris can probably be counted on the fingers of one hand (with still a few fingers left over for playing the odd Chopin Etude...). So... grab the heartbeat 2.0.3 release. There is a good chance (no guarantees) that it should build, including its ability to generate a "pkg", but early in the configure process it might halt if it cannot find the a pre-requisite. (Missing optionals should casue "warn but continue" behaviour.) If reasonably possible, try to stick with it. And please report back any problems here so that we can try to improve things. Hope that helps (even though it's not the ideal answer you were seeking!). -- : David Lee I.T. Service : : Senior Systems Programmer Computer Centre : : Durham University : : http://www.dur.ac.uk/t.d.lee/ South Road : : Durham DH1 3LE : : Phone: +44 191 334 2752 U.K. : _______________________________________________________ Linux-HA-Dev: [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha-dev Home Page: http://linux-ha.org/
