Solaris 9 and Service Provider 2.5.3

[Christopher Bongaarts]

On 10/24/2014 5:16 PM, Cantor, Scott wrote:
> Solaris always has issues as a general rule. I'm sure something will fail
> to build without some tinkering, whether it's something fatal or not is
> impossible to say.
>
> All of the material in the wiki is applicable to any version of Solaris,
> so as soon as something pops up that makes it impossible to follow those
> instructions, you'll have an answer. The one thing you will never make
> work is Sun CC without the stlport option, and if that doesn't work on the
> compiler that works on 9, you either use GCC, or you're out of luck.
>
> I will not formally support it in any case. Solaris 9 is EOL for anybody
> not paying Oracle for support, and any OS in that state becomes
> unsupportable for an open source project like this one.

But by all means, if you run into problems, ask on the list, as there 
are a few folks who are running on Solaris still (I have a couple 
Solaris 9 SPs yet).  It's just that the Shib team isn't making any 
promises about it.

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