christopher dodd writes: > Yesterday I had a dickens of a time getting an Open Solaris (nv 95) sparc > machine prepped for building Open Solaris. I tried following the posted > directions carefully, but I was frustrated that there were a couple of errors > and missing steps. > > Since I did finally get it working, I thought I'd post what I found here and > hopefully the directions can be updated or others with similar problems will > stumble across this post. > > 1. This is not really a problem for me, but... > http://opensolaris.org/os/community/tools/sun_studio_tools/sun_studio_11_SPARC_special_May2008/ > lists extra patches can only be obtained with a sunsolve account. My > company has one and I was able to get the patches but if I didn't I would be > limited to gcc only?
The Studio patches should be accessible with a login only, not a service contract. You just have to register, which you would have done before downloading the OS ISO. > > 2. The Sun Studio 11 installer does not work with Java 1.6+. Solaris Express: > Community Release comes with Java 1.6. Downloading and installing Java 1.5 > fixes this problem. This should be documented somewhere. Here > http://opensolaris.org/os/community/tools/sun_studio_tools/sun_studio_11_tools/ > perhaps. > Am I the only one to have run in to this? It was very frustrating and tricky > to track down. Java 1.6 is relatively new, so the docs will predate it. The only real use for Studio 11 on OpenSolaris (or Solaris 10) is building on (at least until build 99), so not many people would hit this problem. > > 3. The download/install instructions for Sun Studio 11 > (http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/cc/downloads/ss11/downloadinstx.pdf) > claim the installer can be invoked with -nodisplay option for a non-gui > install. This does not work (perhaps just on the sparc version). I'm sure it did, at least on x86. Ian
