[OpenIndiana-discuss] About moving to hipster

[Harry Putnam]

Predrag Zecevic <predrag.zecevic at 2e-systems.com> writes:

> Am 13.10.2014 um 17:42 schrieb Harry Putnam:
>> ken mays via openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
>> writes:
>>> See:
>>>
>>> http://dlc-origin.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/OI-hipster-gui-20141010.iso
>>>
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Thanks to both Alexander Pyhalov and you for that URL
>>
>> Alexanders, your awaited iso was already there when I looked
>> yesterday.  Thanks
>>
>> Can any of you tell me how one navigates the pkgs.  In my install
>> there seems to be no pkg manager.
>>
>> I'm familiar with the pkg cmdline but digging out specific stuff
>> without the name is a bit primitive. And time consuming.
>>
>> There are some specific tools one needs to be able to build pkgs from
>> source ... the developer/gnu  is one.  But there are others I don't
>> recall the names of.
>>
>> For example, I'm having a problem building an external pkg called
>> xbindkeys.
>>
>>    checking for gawk... gawk
>>    checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
>>    checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
>>    checking for gcc... no
>>    checking for cc... no
>>    checking for cl.exe... no
>>    configure: error: in `/usr/local/src/xbindkeys-1.8.6_2':
>>    configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
>>    See `config.log' for more details
>>
>>
>> So I start mucking around for gcc and find quite a bit with 'pkg search'
>>
>> What pkgs do I need to be able to do this?
>>

That giving me a heck of a start... thanks