OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2
Posted by Charles Wimmer in Solaris on May 30, 2008
Solaris in the cloud! Amazon and Sun team up to offer OpenSolaris on the EC2 platform.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=643950011
OpenSSL 0.9.7m doesn’t compile on SPARC
Posted by Charles Wimmer in Solaris on March 7, 2007
OpenSSL 0.9.7m doesn’t compile on SPARC. The problem is that the Makefile assumes -mcpu was deprecated on SPARC like it was on i386 for GCC. This is not the case. The author has fixed the problem in CVS and it should be corrected in 0.9.7n. 0.9.7m was not a bugfix version, but rather a feature addition, so this isn’t really a big deal.
http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=1493
Linking problems with gcc on Solaris 10 11/06
Posted by Charles Wimmer in Solaris 10 on January 5, 2007
I’ve found that some of the build scripts for my packages depend on the location of gcc to be /opt/sfw/bin. Attempting to build these packages on Solaris 10 11/06 (Update 3) fail to find some libraries such as readline. To fix the error, I had to add /opt/sfw/lib to the CFLAGS variable.
GCC Moved in Update 3
Posted by Charles Wimmer in Solaris 10 on January 4, 2007
GCC has been moved from the Companion Software into the base OS in Solaris 10 Update 3.
$ which gcc
/usr/sfw/bin/gcc
$ gcc –version
gcc (GCC) 3.4.3 (csl-sol210-3_4-branch+sol_rpath)
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