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Turnkey Build Environment Package

OpenSolaris Engineering -- specifically the GNOME (JDS) team -- provides a pre-packaged, "turnkey" system for building FOSS software. It's called the JDS Common Build Environment (CBE), and one of its main goals (as the name implies) is to support JDS development. However, the CBE was designed to support the building and maintenance of any FOSS software, not just JDS. In other words, for system administrators and others who build and maintain FOSS packages on Solaris, the CBE aims to simplify and improve things for you.

Read about it (and/or get it) ...


A summary of the relevant attributes of the JDS CBE is included below (in case, e.g., you want to roll your own compatible build environment).


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Summary of CBE Attributes

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Platform

Solaris Express, aka "Solaris 11". (Solaris 10 should work too, but it hasn't been tested as far as I know.)
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Compiler

Studio 11 (Sun's free compiler suite) and gcc 3.4. Sun's cc is generally preferred over gcc, but owing to the gcc-centric nature of some FOSS software, gcc is sometimes necessary.
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Build tools

Certain FOSS tools (listed below) should be installed somewhere. For example you might have them in "/opt/fosstools/bin"; or if you're using the JDS build environment, they'll be in /opt/jdsbld/bin.
The tools are: 
      autoconf, automake, bison, CVS, diff (GNU), 
      fileutils, flex (GNU), gettext (GNU), libtool, 
      m4 (GNU), make (GNU), tar (GNU).
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PATH environment variable setting

PATH=/opt/fosstools/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/sfw/bin:/opt/SUNWspro/bin
(Of course you need to change /opt/fosstools/bin to the FOSS tools directory on your system)
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Linker

   /usr/ccs/bin/ld
(Of course if you have an ld exectuable -- e.g. GNU ld -- in your FOSS tools directory, you should do something to ensure /usr/ccs/bin/ld gets used instead.)
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