Steve Nash wrote:
> Comments inline...
>>> 8.1.1 For Solaris components, what Solaris release(s) does it run on
>>> or work with?
>>> OpenSolaris 2008.11
>>
>> Really? Not on Solaris 10 or earlier at all?
>
> We only support OpenSolaris 2008.11. It may work on other versions, but
> we will not officially support it (except on SPARC). It was requested
> by the PAC to limit the number of supported OSes.
>
>> How do you support SPARC then?
>
> The limited set of components on the SPARC distribution are supported on
> Solaris 10 U6.
So some of the earlier "does not apply" answers still do apply to SPARC?
>>> * changes the default $PATH and $LD_LIBRARY_PATH for all users
>>
>> How does it change the default $PATH?
>> How does it set $LD_LIBRARY_PATH without breaking other software?
>
> We modify the /etc/{bashrc,csh.cshrc} to change the default environment
> (for all users).
Do you set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the shell files? To what?
>>> ./SUNWdmx/reloc/dmx/include/X11/*
>>> ./SUNWdmx/reloc/dmx/lib/X11/*
>>
>> You appear to be shipping a large portion of the X Window System,
>> including
>> many libraries and headers which would already be present on the
>> system, and
>> which if included in the global LD_LIBRARY_PATH you set would break other
>> applications.
>>
>> TCR: Stop that!
>>
>
> Are you saying DMX is available on OpenSolaris -- we could not find it
> the last time we looked.
No, I'm saying libX11, libXext, <X11/X11.h> and dozens of other files you
list as shipping are already in OpenSolaris, and Solaris, and every OS
Sun has shipped in the last two decades. Your DMX packages are not just
DMX - they contain far too many duplicate files, some that make no sense
at all - why ship libDPS with an X server that can't support Display Postscript?
Why ship the loadable modules for the Xorg server (in the obsolete, deprecated,
impossible-to-debug custom loadable .a format even) with a non-Xorg server?
As for shipping DMX it's on our todo list, but not at a high priority. The
technical work should be low - community members have already modified our
builds in our shared community gate to build DMX - we just haven't gotten
around to verifying it's well integrated on Solaris (for instance, there's
keyboard driver code for other OS'es, why is it there and do we need it on
Solaris?) and doing the ARC reviews. If it needs to be a higher priority,
maybe your manager should bring that up with our manager at one of their
weekly staff meetings.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
