<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Rupert,<div><br><div><div>Am 06.02.2010 um 18:35 schrieb rupert THURNER:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 19:14, Philip Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:phil@bolthole.com">phil@bolthole.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im">On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski<br> <<a href="mailto:maciej@opencsw.org">maciej@opencsw.org</a>> wrote:<br> ><br> > Firefox was done by William. I was working on NSS, and it even<br> > compiles on Solaris 10, but not Solaris 8, but the reason is unclear.<br> <br> </div>I vaguely recall, that netscape for some unfathomable reason, took a<br> very different approach to security and nss, between [sol8 and sol<br> 10?]<br> <br> One of them attempts to compile, and does actually deliver in the<br> package, a completely separate [lib*nss*solaris*security*] or<br> something, and one does not.<br> It gets dynamically linked in to the "main" nss lib, and is a critical<br> dependancy, if i recall correctly.<br> <div><div class="h5"></div></div></blockquote><div> <div>my collegue found an existing old binary - so our need is less urgent now. as we are not using solaris-8 anymore, i tried to build a solaris-10 package and gar said:</div> <div><br>rupert@build10s:~/mgar/pkg/nss/trunk<br>$ gmake clean package<br>[ Cleaning for modulation isa-sparcv8: ISA=sparcv8 ]<br>[ Cleaning for modulation isa-sparcv9: ISA=sparcv9 ]<br>gar/<a href="http://gar.pkg.mk:691">gar.pkg.mk:691</a>: *** You are building this package on a non-requested platform host 'build10s'. The follow platforms were requested:<br> gar/<a href="http://gar.pkg.mk:691">gar.pkg.mk:691</a>: *** - solaris8-sparc to be build on host 'build8s'<br>gar/<a href="http://gar.pkg.mk:691">gar.pkg.mk:691</a>: *** - solaris8-i386 to be build on host 'build8x'<br> gar/<a href="http://gar.pkg.mk:691">gar.pkg.mk:691</a>: *** You can execute 'gmake platforms' to automatically build on all necessary platforms.. Stop.<br><br></div><div><br></div><div>would it be even appropriate to try to compile a solaris-10 package and release it? if yes, what is the correct way to do it?</div> </div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div>The default is still to assemble only on Solaris 8. If you want to assemble on Solaris 10</div><div>you have to adjust PACKAGING_PLATFORMS as described here:</div><div> <<a href="http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gar/wiki/Platforms">http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gar/wiki/Platforms</a>></div><div>BTW, no need to open a bug, and yes, the Trac bugtracker</div><div> <<a href="http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gar/report">http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gar/report</a>></div><div>would be the right one for GAR :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Apart from that it is AFAIK policy to release starting with Solaris 9 as the release</div><div>is still fully supported by Sun.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best regards</div><div><br></div><div> -- Dago</div></body></html>