[oi-dev] Desktop Illumos Still Matters

[Joerg Schilling]

Alasdair Lumsden <alasdairrr at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 05/09/2012 21:58, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > Alasdair Lumsden <alasdairrr at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It seems that you missunderstand the problem.
> >
> > The main issue is that the build system linked against /usr instead of linking
> > against something like: /home/user/proto/usr
>
> userland-gate still links against /usr - it has a per-package proto area 
> rather than a build-system wide proto area.

Then the biggest problem has not been solved.

The "concept" of "flagdays" is wrong, it does not allow reliable upgrades as 
everytime, when more than a single leaf project in such a consolidation is 
updated, an unknown number of build/install cycles must follow until no 
binaries change from the next build cycle.

A clean build system would have a own global proto area. With this concept, you 
would still need to have the right compile order that depends on the link 
dependencies.

> "You need to comment out line 71 of the file 
> /usr/include/net-snmp/net-snmp-config.h
> do that it then looks this way:
>
> /*#define HAVE_CPP_UNDERBAR_FUNCTION_DEFINED 1*/
>
> This is needed as the sunstudio-12 compiler and gcc-3.4.3 do not support 
> __FUNCTION__"
>
> That's an autoconf problem, not a problem with the build system. If you 
> build software with a new compiler, autoconf will detect its new features.

It is a problem that is based on the original software, I mentioned it because 
Sun claimed that all include files in /usr/include are non-dynamic and 
independent from compiler versions. This was done in a discussion where Sun 
claimed that dynamic configuration results are unacceptable dependencies for 
the ONNV compilation. I should note that the file net-snmp-config.h _is_ such a 
ONNV dependency.

Jörg

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