[csw-maintainers] Solaris versions on the public build farm

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Peter,

Am 07.07.2012 um 15:21 schrieb Peter FELECAN:
> I spent some time battling with the build of libxvidcore. The issue was
> quite opaque until I discovered that the linker on the public build farm
> has not the same version as on my private build farm (which is pure
> Solaris 10 U10).
> 
> On the public build farm, the linker is of version 5.10-1.500 when on
> the private build-farm, the verion of the linker is 5.10-1.1505. The
> incriminated difference is the support of long options in the more
> recent linker, particularly --soname as an alias of -h; the long option
> can be found in the GNU linker, -soname variation. This has confused the
> build system as myself. For me the issue is solved but can raise
> confusion for others as many upstream projects, xvid being part of them,
> has patched their build system to support the latest Solaris versions...
> 
> Can we have an assessment of the versions installed in the public build
> farm? Ideally we should have the last versions, isn't it?

Yes, sort of :-) The farm could use some new patches and I also need to shuffle
around some zones as the rpool is getting full. Unfortunately I have quite some
work load at the moment so it may take some days. If you need it desperately
I can apply just the patch manually.


Best regards

  -- Dago

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