Re: OpenIndiana installation

[Paul Smith]

On Sun, 2023-02-05 at 18:04 +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Paul Smith wrote:
> > I tried to install Solaris 11 OpenIndiana from an OVA file in
> > VirtualBox and I was able to get it to install but couldn't figure
> > out how to install a C compiler on it.
> 
> Yes, every OS has its own type of package manager and, with it, its
> own way of finding out the actual package names that one needs to
> install.

Thanks that was very helpful.  I had a Solaris11 OVA and I ran the pkg
install developer/gcc-11 and it did lots of things but afterward there
was no gcc program installed (I searched the entire disk for "*gcc*").
Weird.

So then I installed OpenIndiana based on your notes and that succeeded
and I was able to build make and run the tests.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to reproduce the problem; all tests passed
for me (I'm using a build where the ar issue is already fixed).  I
tried with 1 CPU as well just to be sure.

Sigh!

I wonder what can be different about what I'm doing and what you're
doing.  Maybe it's related to how the tests are run; I suppose you're
using some sort of automated testing framework?  Maybe there's no TTY
or something?  Can you briefly describe how the tests are invoked?