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

[pablosantosluac at terra.es]

Zoltan,


Did you take everything from there? Including gsed, gtar and all the GNU 
tools? Because I remember someone telling me about the blastwave instead...

Zoltan Varga escribió:
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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>>>
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