Re: pkgsrc on Solaris 10

["Christopher Vance" <cjsvance%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 8/29/07, Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido <gerardo.santana%gmail.com@localhost> 
wrote:
> I just to thank you guys for pkgsrc.
>
> I'm a BSD user, maintaining a hand of Solaris boxes. I really missed
> the BSD way of doing things.
>
> I can tell you that pkgsrc-2007Q2 is working great on Solaris 10. For
> those that may be reading this now, or in the future, watch the
> following:
>
> * pkgsrc was installed from source. The bootstrap works fine.
>
> * Update your /usr/sfw/lib/libstdc++.la
>    More about that here: 
> http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5073150
>
> * The GCC that comes in pkgsrc (2.95.3) didn't work for me. It has
> bugs (fixed in gcc 4, not 3) and after fixing them, it triggered some
> problems building db4. I'm using SUNWgcc (3.4.3) instead.
>
> Hope this can help someone and save him/her time.

I'm trialling pkgsrc current on Solaris 10 (SPARC).  Using gcc34 seems
to work for most of the things I've tried.  I bootstrapped using the
gcc we already had installed, but now pkgsrc is self-hosted, and the
bootstrap compiler and libraries are gone.

It seems bmake is misconfigured to use the wrong shell on Solaris, but
I've worked around that so far.

I still haven't worked out how to get teTeX to recognize that I have
libXpm installed and don't want or need xpm and the things it drags in
- but that's probably just a familiarization issue.

-- 
Christopher