[Evolution] Re: Running Evolution under Solaris 9 (8/03)

["Brian Kolaci" <bk Kola com>]

Great, thanks so much.  This is exactly what I
was looking for...  I searched the archives but didn't
come up with anything even close to your solution.  I
wasn't sure how to fool the system with a uname() replacement.

I would have thought that Ximiam wouuld have an installer
that allowed Solaris 9 though.  Seems it should be simple
enough as it should be the same as Solaris 8.

Thanks again,

Brian

---------- Original Message -----------
From: Andy McMullin <Andy rickham net>
To: evolution lists ximian com
Cc: bk Kola com
Sent: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 14:09:17 +0100
Subject: Running Evolution under Solaris 9 (8/03)

> Brian said
>
> > > > Yes, they have a S9 version (and had it from the start).
> > > > However, ximian gives an installer error.  I ran truss
> > > > on it and they're doing a uname() system call and rejecting it.
> > >
> > > The outdated 1.4 binaries from sun? 
> >
> > No, the gnome 2.0 has been out for quite some time now.
> > The gnome 2.0 for solaris 9 was available back in March.
> > For solaris 8 it was out before that...
> > I've been waiting since March for Evolution to be ready.
> > I thought that would have happened a long time ago.
>
> You don't say if you're trying with Solaris 9 for X86 or Sparc; but I
> can tell you that Evolutions works under the latter (because I'm 
> using it for this e-mail).
>
> It seems you need to do three things (see below for details).
>
> First, compile a little program to "fiddle" the uname;
> then use a sed command to do something similar to the download;
> then ignore the installation failure message.
>
> After that (and making sure your colour depth is 24 bit) it all runs.
>
> -- 
> Regards
> Andy, G8TQH
> http://www.rickham.net/
>
> ---------------------------------------
>
> To get the Ximian loader to download Evolution onto a Solaris 9 machine
> (courtesy of Richard L Hamilton)
>
> First compile the following program (uname.c) from Richard.
>
> This is done twice -- once as per the comment in the source code and 
> the result placed in /usr/lib. Then (if you're running on 64 bit 
> Sparc) with the -m64 flag as well; putting that into 
> /usr/lib/sparcv9. If you don't have /usr/lib/secure and 
> /usr/lib/sparcv9/secure then:
>
> umask 22
> mkdir -p /usr/lib/secure
> cd /usr/lib/secure; ln -s ../uname.so . case `uname -m` in sun4u*) mkdir
> -p /usr/lib/sparcv9/secure
>         cd /usr/lib/sparcv9/secure; ln -s ../uname.so . ;;
> esac
>
> Here's the source of the program:
>
> --- uname.c -------------------------
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <string.h>
> #include <dlfcn.h>
> #include <sys/utsname.h>
> /* compile as:
>  * gcc -fPIC -G -c uname.c
>  * ld -G -o uname.so uname.o
>  */
> int uname(struct utsname *name)
> {
>
>    static int (*uname_real)();
>    register int rc;
>    register char *p;
>    if (uname_real==NULL)
>      uname_real = (int (*) ()) dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "uname");
>
>    if ((rc = uname_real(name)) != -1) {
>
>       if ((p=getenv("SYSNAME"))!=NULL) {
>          strncpy(name->sysname,p,SYS_NMLN-1);
>          name->sysname[SYS_NMLN-1]='\0';
>       }
>       if ((p=getenv("NODENAME"))!=NULL) {
>          strncpy(name->nodename,p,SYS_NMLN-1);
>          name->nodename[SYS_NMLN-1]='\0';
>       }
>       if ((p=getenv("RELEASE"))!=NULL) {
>          strncpy(name->release,p,SYS_NMLN-1);
>          name->release[SYS_NMLN-1]='\0';
>       }
>       if ((p=getenv("VERSION"))!=NULL) {
>          strncpy(name->version,p,SYS_NMLN-1);
>          name->version[SYS_NMLN-1]='\0';
>       }
>       if ((p=getenv("MACHINE"))!=NULL) {
>          strncpy(name->machine,p,SYS_NMLN-1);
>          name->machine[SYS_NMLN-1]='\0';
>       }
>    }
>    return rc;
> }
>
> --- end source -----------------------------
>
> Then set these environment variables:
>
> RELEASE=5.8
> VERSION=Generic
> LD_PRELOAD=uname.so
> export RELEASE VERSION LD_PRELOAD
>
> and instead of running:
>
>    wget -q -O - http://go-solaris.ximian.com |sh
>
> run:
>
>    wget -q -O - http://go-solaris.ximian.com | \
>       sed -e 's/2003\.01\.14\.12\.39/9.4.2003.06.13.16.21/' | \ sh
>
> in order to make it think you've still got the old Gnome libraries.
>
> -----
>
> As Richard said in his mailing/postings:
>
> "The installer will seem to fail in the end, after downloading and
> installing.  Nevertheless, /opt/gnome/bin/evolution will be there, 
> and seems to work."
>
> It worked for me on my Sparc Station; however, your mileage might vary!
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