Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, (depending on where you are)
With documentation on opensolaris.org, opensolaris.com, sun.com,
blastwave.com, sunfreeware.com, and about a have a dozen other great
sources, it's tough to find a definitive answer on the proper way to port
and package software for OpenSolaris 2008.11.
With the /contrib repository coming on line yesterday I took a look at
some of the packages and I see that they are being installed with '/' as the
root directory, Blastwave was always in /opt/CSW/, and sunfreeware was
/usr/local.
If I were to create packages to submit for inclusion into /contrib, I
am assuming I would use '/' as the install directory, correct?
What about Compilers? I see perl was built with cc not gcc, so any
subsequent perl modules should be with cc, and installed in '/'? Or is the
etiquette to install blastwave's perl and create perl modules for that
distribution? I remember reading, that on Solaris you should not install
perl packages for the default install of perl, that is for the system, use
another perl and install there.... I am assuming that does not hold true
anymore.
I realize these questions are probably basic, but I think there are a
lot of people 'green' to OpenSolaris and find these types of questions,
hurdles to getting involved in creating more packages, and making
OpenSolaris a more viable alternative to other OS's.
Thanks for the help,
Chad
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