Hi, yes, figured out that the "extras" repo is required. The default ON community page only says that extras is for goodies (which sounded optional to me). The goodies include "required" packages for building ON. Probably that page should be fixed.
Vikram On Sunday 27 December 2009 22:21:50 Mike Gerdts wrote: > On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Vikram Hegde <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Has anything changed with building ON ? I followed the current > > instructions on the ON community web-page and had to jump through > > hoops to compile the current onnv-clone on OSOL-build 130. This > > included installing a bunch of missing packages such as SUNWapch > > SUNWprd etc. > > > > I started out by installing "entire" but that didn't drag in the above > > packages. Are the ON build instructions up to date ? > > The "entire" package is an "incorporation" that (mostly? only?) > establishes compatibility rules. If you want to install "everything" > what you really want is: > > pkg install redistributable > > But that doesn't really get you what you need either. This is because > there are some things required to build ON (e.g. WBEM) that is not > redistributable. Also, the version of the Studio compilers that are in > the repository have not yet been updated to the right patch level. > See the following for the instructions you need. Do not skip the > extras repository, as that is where the non-redistributable WBEM is > found. > > http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+indiana/building_on > http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+tools/sun_studio_12_too > ls > > And then send mail to on-discuss and/or tools-discuss pointing to the > page that led you to the unhelpful documentation. FWIW, those lists > will tend to have people more well-versed in building ON than > opensolaris-discuss. > -- A gentleman is a man who wouldn't hit a lady with his hat on. -- Evan Esar [ And why not? For why does she have his hat on? Ed.] _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
