[oi-dev] Building Userland on Solaris 10

[John Center]

On 01/04/2012 09:51 AM, Alasdair Lumsden wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> On 01/ 4/12 02:21 PM, John Center wrote:
>> What would I need to do to build Userland on Sol10/SPARC?  I'm prepared
>> to adapt whatever is needed to get this to work.
>
> Hmm, that's going to be much harder! Effectively you have the
> "bootstrap" issue we originally faced when doing this, where you don't
> have sufficiently new versions of python, expat, libxml2, etc to get
> pkg5 to build easily.
>
> You will want to follow my rough guide here:
>
> http://blogs.everycity.co.uk/alasdair/2011/01/building-ips-pkg5-on-solaris-10/
>
> Once you have a working pkg5, you should be able to use the s10-userland
> framework to build stuff, although you'll be missing gcc and lots of
> other important stuff.
>
> It's not going to be easy, and most of the build recipes in s10-userland
> assume x86 so I have no idea how well they'll work with SPARC. But we'll
> be happy to accept commits to make stuff work on SPARC and eventually a
> pkg5 bootstrap tarball for SPARC.
>
> If this all seems like too much work, you might want to consider OpenCSW?
>

Ok, I'll take a look at your guide & see how difficult it would be to 
do.  I already have a "system" of sorts to build most of the SFW pieces 
I need, but I'd like to adapt it into something that is more generally 
usable.

The main problem I have with SFW or OpenCSW is that I usually want to 
build for the T-series chips so that I can take advantage of the crypto 
support, etc.  These distributions are usually built to the LCD, are 
32bit, are compiled without options I want, want to put everything in 
/usr/local & often still out of date.  (I don't mind using them to 
bootstrap, though. ;-))

Hopefully if I get this working, I'll have something to submit back.

Thanks for your help!

	-John

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John Center
Villanova University