<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 21:21, Dagobert Michelsen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dam@opencsw.org">dam@opencsw.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>Hi Rupert,<div><br><div><div>Am 06.02.2010 um 18:35 schrieb rupert THURNER:</div><div><div class="h5"><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" target="_blank">phil@bolthole.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div>On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski<br> <<a href="mailto:maciej@opencsw.org" target="_blank">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> </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" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">gar.pkg.mk:691</a>: *** - solaris8-sparc to be build on host 'build8s'<br>gar/<a href="http://gar.pkg.mk:691" target="_blank">gar.pkg.mk:691</a>: *** - solaris8-i386 to be build on host 'build8x'<br>
gar/<a href="http://gar.pkg.mk:691" target="_blank">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></div></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" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">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></blockquote><div><br>many thanks for the hint! i would really appreciate if creating a package for solaris-10 can be done with "gmake package", without changing and commiting a makefile.<br>
<br>rupert.<br><br></div><div></div></div>