[csw-maintainers] building netscape security services, nss

[rupert THURNER]

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 21:21, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:

> Hi Rupert,
>
> Am 06.02.2010 um 18:35 schrieb rupert THURNER:
>
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 19:14, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski
>> <maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > Firefox was done by William.  I was working on NSS, and it even
>> > compiles on Solaris 10, but not Solaris 8, but the reason is unclear.
>>
>> I vaguely recall, that netscape for some unfathomable reason, took a
>> very different approach to security and nss, between [sol8 and sol
>> 10?]
>>
>> One of them attempts to compile, and does actually deliver in the
>> package, a completely separate [lib*nss*solaris*security*] or
>> something, and one does not.
>> It gets dynamically linked in to the "main" nss lib, and is a critical
>> dependancy, if i recall correctly.
>>
>
> 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:
>
> rupert at build10s:~/mgar/pkg/nss/trunk
> $ gmake clean package
> [ Cleaning for modulation isa-sparcv8: ISA=sparcv8 ]
> [ Cleaning for modulation isa-sparcv9: ISA=sparcv9 ]
> gar/gar.pkg.mk:691: *** You are building this package on a non-requested
> platform host 'build10s'. The follow platforms were requested:
> gar/gar.pkg.mk:691: *** - solaris8-sparc to be build on host 'build8s'
> gar/gar.pkg.mk:691: *** - solaris8-i386 to be build on host 'build8x'
> gar/gar.pkg.mk:691: *** You can execute 'gmake platforms' to automatically
> build on all necessary platforms.. Stop.
>
>
> 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?
>
>
> The default is still to assemble only on Solaris 8. If you want to assemble
> on Solaris 10
> you have to adjust PACKAGING_PLATFORMS as described here:
>   <http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gar/wiki/Platforms>
> BTW, no need to open a bug, and yes, the Trac bugtracker
>   <http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gar/report>
> would be the right one for GAR :-)
>
> Apart from that it is AFAIK policy to release starting with Solaris 9 as
> the release
> is still fully supported by Sun.
>

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.

rupert.
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