[Axiom-developer] FW: Axiom on Solaris 10.2 x86

[Bill Page]

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From: Bill Page [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: April 7, 2007 6:05 PM
To: 'address@hidden'
Subject: RE: Axiom on Solaris 10.2 x86


Gaby,


On April 7, 2007 5:18 PM you wrote:
>...
> Bill Page wrote: 
> > Apparently ./configure did not locate the required sockets
> > headers. Do you have any idea what might be wrong? Or how
> > I should attempt to debug this?
> 
> if configure did not find the sockets headers, it would have
> aborted at configure time.  My suspicion is that it did find
> them, but somehow, it could not find the associated libraries.
> Please, could you send me the config.log file and see where
> there the socket library had been put in different file?
>

Yes, I see. That is certainly possible. The Blastwave gnu tools
binaries and libraries are in a non-standard location under
/opt/csw

I've attached config.log (gz)
 
> I tried to install openSolaris nevada build 60 on my Dell
> Optiplex 745, but eventually I gave up and installed SuSE
> instead. :-( The reason being that openSolaris 64bit seems
> to be largely unsupported by GNU tool chains, and openSolaris
> seems to ignore many of GNU software. :-(
> 

What I am running is technically not OpenSolaris but rather
Sun's Solaris 10.2 release. I found installation very simple.
Of course Solaris is still not as easy an installation as
most of the Linux distributions, but if you have been around
Solaris for a long time (like I have) then installing 10.2 is
comparatively much easier than Solaris used to be on some
Sun sparc hardware.

http://www.blastwave.org

tries hard to be like what Debian is for Linux and I find that
for the most part it works very well. You should find the support
for x-86-64 binaries essentially the same as for the sparc
architecture. Actually it is mostly Blastwave that has lured
me back to Solaris after nearly giving it up for Linux. Perhaps
it is only nostalgia, but for enterprise applications I am still
inclined to prefer Solaris over any of the Linux distributions.

Regards,
Bill Page.