Chad Kellerman wrote: > Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, (depending on where you are) > > With documentation on opensolaris.org <http://opensolaris.org>, > opensolaris.com <http://opensolaris.com>, sun.com <http://sun.com>, > blastwave.com <http://blastwave.com>, sunfreeware.com > <http://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.
The folks on the sw-porters-discuss list should be able to help you better. -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
