On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 04:32:01PM -0300, Roberto Pereyra wrote:

> Hi have installed Solaris 10 but I read that I need Solaris Express 10
> to build Opensolaris.

Actually you need Solaris Express, based on Nevada, not 10.

> Which are the differences between   Solaris Express 10 and the
> "standard" Solaris 10 distribution ?
> 
> Can I build Opensolaris in Solaris 10 ?

Not any more.  A few months ago, it was possible if you used the
Studio compiler.  Since then, changes have been made requiring a more
current build system; I believe it may be possible to build on SX
build 14 or later with Studio and 22 or later with gcc, but I don't
promise it.  The downloads page says we require build 18 or later; the
release notes state that you need 16.  Sometimes the requirement for
doing a build is different from the requirement for doing a BFU (i.e.,
you could build on 16 but you might need 22 or later on a machine you
wish to BFU).

These requirements change from time to time, so always follow the
instructions in the release notes.  They contain the latest
information about build requirements.  Your best bet, if for some
incomprehensible reason you're dead-set against reading the notes, is
to use the most recent available install image on all build and test
machines.

As for the differences between S10 FCS and NV build 24, they're too
numerous to list here.  You can check out Dan Price's blog for some of
the highlights in SX and SXCR builds at http://blogs.sun.com/dp.  You
can also read the ON putback logs, which list the bugs/RFEs and ARC
cases addressed by each putback; see
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/onnv/onnv_putback_logs/.

-- 
Keith M Wesolowski              "Sir, we're surrounded!" 
Solaris Kernel Team             "Excellent; we can attack in any direction!" 
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