[oi-dev] Building Userland on Solaris 10

[John Center]

Hi Alasdair,

I just did an hg clone from ssh://anon@hg.opensolaris.org/hg/pkg/gate. 
Is this the correct location to get pkg5?  Your description of the 
subdirectory changes in the Makefile doesn't match what I received.  Did 
I pull this from the wrong location, or could it be that it just changed 
since your blog entry?  (Browsing the source, I see relatively recent 
dates.)

Thanks.

	-John



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?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alasdair
>
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