[Mono-dev] mono 2.0, solaris x86, bootstrap

[Zoltan Varga]

Hi,

  On opensolaris, I'm using the official sun packages from the
opersolaris repository.

               Zoltan

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:47 PM, pablosantosluac at terra.es
<pablosantosluac at terra.es> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After one week going crazy with the Solaris x86 build, Geoff Norton has
> found what was going wrong.
>
> It wasn't monolite.
>
> It seems I have a wrong define in glibconfig.h
>
> -bash-3.00$ grep G_BYTE_ORDER *
> glibconfig.h:#define G_BYTE_ORDER G_BIG_ENDIAN
> -bash-3.00$ pwd
> /opt/csw/include/glib-2.0
>
> I'll replace it by G_LITTLE_ENDIAN!
>
> So, I'm using the packages from blastwave.org (someone told me to use these ones instead of the "sunfreeware" ones), but it seems they're broken.
>
> Now my question is: where should I be getting the packages from? Which ones are you (guys able to build on Solaris x86 or OpenSolaris) using?????
>
>
> If I get to the point to compile it I'll try to write all the steps... :-P
>
>
> pablo
>
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>
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>
> Miguel de Icaza escribió:
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>>> The above is actually a really good reason why we do not spend more
>>>> cycles on Solaris/SPARC.
>>>>
>>>> The machines are overpriced, and underperforming.  It is like buying an
>>>> iPhone, just not as useful.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> This is the most stupid thing I've seen in a while.  Go to a bank and
>>> take a look in the
>>> datacentre. Hurry, before they go out of business. :-(
>>>
>>
>> Well, maybe banks should not have been buying overpriced stuff, like
>> debt, or SPARC computers.
>>
>> We do support it, and I wish we could do more, because I do like the
>> SPARC architecture, but with its current pricing I have zero desire on
>> buying more overpriced slow hardware.
>>
>> But if people want to donate expensive SPARC computers to the project,
>> we could certainly use them.
>>
>>
>>> This is a question of user need vs developer convenience. I think your
>>> attitude is
>>> inappropriate if you want to push Mono as a realistic alternative to
>>> Java.  Which
>>> does work rather well on Solaris.
>>>
>>
>> You are under the mistaken impression that our goal is to replace other
>> technologies.   We are not trying to compete with Java, if you are happy
>> with Java, keep using Java.   And if you are happy with Ruby, or Python,
>> or C++, more power to you.
>>
>> We are offering a platform that might suit some people, and we are
>> trying to maximize developer pleasure and enjoyment when they write and
>> maintain software.
>>
>>
>>
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