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

[Zoltan Varga]

Hi,

  That person probably referred to solaris, opensolaris has these
packages built in.

              Zoltan

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 6:03 PM, pablosantosluac at terra.es
<pablosantosluac at terra.es> wrote:
> 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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