Re: Gnome binary distribution for solaris ?

[Brian Kurotsuchi <bkurotsu lug ee calpoly edu>]

I'm running Solaris 2.6 and did get Gnome working after a lot of work...

As I often comment to my roommate, you're basically building a Linux box
in /usr/local when you try to get Gnome going.  Here's a semi-complete list
of what I installed to get Gnome going:

egcs
gnu make
libz
libjbig
HDF image support
gdb
libtiff
libungif
libjpeg
libpng
Imagemagick
automake
autoconf
   - GNU m4 need to build this
libtool
libdb (Berkeley)
python
GNU tar (control-panel tarball gives a checksum error with Solaris tar)
GNU gettext
gawk
flex

Let's just say, it is a LOT of work.  Half of the above I had installed before
even trying to build Gnome.  I probably missed something from the above list
too.  And of course there is a list just as long when you actually get to the
Gnome installation instructions.

I've thought about doing a Solaris package for Gnome, but it would take all
year to package the above support software.

Anyway, good luck.  Don't run yourself out of disk space...

BK

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Quoting Mark R. Bowyer (Moredhel@earthling.net):
> 
> > From: Gleef <dzol@virtual-yellow.com>
> >... The good news is there are prepackaged binaries
> > for all the GNU tools you need to compile stuff, including GNOME.  Go to
> > http://smc.vnet.net/ for more info.
> 
> 
> You'll need egcs, Gnu Make, indent and flex installed from the packages there 
> (Get the Solaris 2.6 ones if Solaris 7 ones don't exist).  Plus all the graphics 
> libraries you can get.  You'll also find the pre-compiled stuff at 
> http://chaos.crhc.uiuc.edu/~chan/enlightenment/ useful for graphics libraries, 
> thought the Enlightenment build there is *old*.
> 
> Then fetch all the tarballs of GTK+/GLIB, Enlightenment, Gnome, etc, unpack them 
> and "./configure; make; make install" does everything you need =O)
> 
> Given time, I might package up my builds here, when it gets more stable.  But 
> I'm sure someone will do it before me =O)