On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Jason King <jason at ansipunx.net> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Richard Lowe <richlowe at richlowe.net> > wrote: >> "James C. McPherson" <James.McPherson at Sun.COM> writes: >> >>> On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:18:24 +0300 >>> Cyril Plisko <cyril.plisko at mountall.com> wrote: >>> >>>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Piotr Jasiukajtis <estseg at gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> > Hi, >>>> > >>>> >>If you are maintaining your own nv build machine, ?you may also >>>> >>want to update your SUNWspro with the new patch set. The tar balls >>>> >>are available as : >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> >>/net/jurassic-x4600.sfbay/tank/home/India/sp92102/SS12-20090626-sparc.tar.gz >>>> >> >>>> >>/net/jurassic-x4600.sfbay/tank/home/India/sp92102/SS12-20090626-x86.tar.gz >>>> > >>>> > What about to create and upload a tarball of working SS12+patches for >>>> > non-sun people? >>>> >>>> >>>> Indeed. the canonical place to get compilers from is >>>> http://opensolaris.org/os/community/tools/sun_studio_tools/ rather >>>> than /net/jurassic-x4600.sfbay/... >>>> Hiding the principal tools behind the corporate firewall is >>>> unthoughtful toward the community. >>> >>> We are working on this and will have it available as soon as >>> humanly possible. Our boundary condition is that we have to >>> get the tarballs up on SDLC. That takes time, because there is >>> a distinct and itemised Correct Process which must be followed. >>> >> >> (I'm not aiming this at you James, as you know...) >> >> Can we, this time, please, get it noted down that this has to be done >> long in advance of any intended switch, to guarantee the availability of >> the compilers. ?This has gone wrong each and every update to the CBE >> that has occurred. >> >> You need to start gating the compiler switch on it's arrival on the DLC, >> or schedule things such that it the arrival on the DLC coincides. > > As someone who lost a lot of time on SS11 -> 12 switch, +1000000. > > It sort of belies the whole open concept when the only people that can > build the core part of OpenSolaris are Sun employees or people with > support contracts (and thus have access to the relevant SS12 patches), > even if it's only a temporary condition. These patches are available for free but it takes a lot of time to prepare a build machine from scratch. I believe it is almost impossible for a new people in Solaris world to do that.
-- Piotr Jasiukajtis | estibi | SCA OS0072 http://estseg.blogspot.com
