Short questions:
Does anybody have JSS 3.1.1 working on Solaris 8?
Can you tell me how you did it?
The rest:
I've been trying to get the latest JSS working on a Solaris 8 sparc
sunfire 280, but I have not been able to figure it out. I'd like to
know if others are having luck wtih this. I was unable to get NSS to
compile using GCC, but I did get it to compile using the demo of Sun's
compiler. Unfortunately I hit a wall trying to get JSS to compile.
The error I was getting was similar to this:
SunOS5.8_gcc_DBG.OBJ/nssmap.sun: file not recognized: File format not
recognized
It came when linking. The above example is the error I got wtih NSS
using GCC. I don't have time to reproduce the conditions which
generated the error, or I would post that instead.
At any rate, compiling is not my primary objective. I simply want to
use the product. Unfortunately I have not been able to determin if I
have everything working whith the binary distribution. If anybody has
this working on Solaris 8, I would like to know about it. That would at
least help me identify that the problem is on my end. If there are any
tricks or insights others have, I'd love to hear about them.
One of the problems I have is not knowing how to test that things are
working. The sample code did not compile. I don't know if is expected
to. When i tried to hand hack it, I was still unable to get it working.
Perhaps I simply need to figre out how to "initialize" the provider,
but without some sense that the underlying software is working, that
seems like an exercise in masochism.
I'd love to have all the relevent nspr, nss, jss, etc tarballed in one
file which I could unpack in say /usr/local or /opt, perhaps set some
links and environment variable. Of course I'm suggesting /usr/local/jss
as the place all other files would fall under. i.e., tar xvfz
jss-tarbal.tar.gz would place only jss in $PWD, and all the other file
under $PWD/jss.
Steven
