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
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