On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, rick at rickmurphy.org wrote: > Newbie here, apologies in advance for breathing valuable air and such. > Despite my shortcomings I have a penchant for some fairly important > software in the ontology, logic and functional programming communities > that are not currently delivered as solaris x86 binaries. So, I think > I'll be spending some of my copious free time building from source which > I will happily make available to the solaris community. > > So, where to begin ... > > 1. Am I on the right listserv ? If not, could someone please provide a > pointer to the right place ? > 2. If I am in the right place, my hardware is intel core 2 duo processor > with plenty of memory and such with opensolaris snv_79b x86 64 with all > the sun studio goodies. > 3. I've run a few ./configure scripts in source distributions which seem > to execute successfully, but when I execute make, or gmake they > typically do not complete without errors. (Sorry, for being so general > here, I will provide details once I know I'm in the right place) > 4. If someone could provide a pointer to a place where I can bootstrap > myself, I'll happily refer to that first, than narrow my questions so I > don't drag ya'll down any earlier than I have to? > > Many thanks in advance.
If you're trying to build the ON sources, please refer to this wiki page on Genunix.org and see if it doesn't help you out. http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OpenSolaris_ON_Build_Cheatsheet This will help you create a zpool, zfs filesystems, and setup the shares for a proper build environment. I've been wanting to add a section on managing home directories to that, by using zfs, but just haven't added it yet. Most of what is there was done by John Weeks, with additions from me. John Plocher deserves most of the credit for the nice formatting on the wiki. -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group
