<div dir="ltr"><div>OpenCSW moved already in 2011 to "best effort" for Solaris 9 (<a href="http://www.opencsw.org/2011/11/solaris-9-is-now-best-effort/">http://www.opencsw.org/2011/11/solaris-9-is-now-best-effort/</a>), meaning most pkgs are built on Solaris 10 and compatible with Solaris 10 and 11. <br><br>I tried to compile and package Shib for OpenCSW but came across too many existing dependencies compiled with SunStudio (so those libs must be migrated to gcc first).<br><br></div>Claudio<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-10-28 16:04 GMT+01:00 Christopher Bongaarts <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cab@umn.edu" target="_blank">cab@umn.edu</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 10/24/2014 5:16 PM, Cantor, Scott wrote:<br>
> Solaris always has issues as a general rule. I'm sure something will fail<br>
> to build without some tinkering, whether it's something fatal or not is<br>
> impossible to say.<br>
><br>
> All of the material in the wiki is applicable to any version of Solaris,<br>
> so as soon as something pops up that makes it impossible to follow those<br>
> instructions, you'll have an answer. The one thing you will never make<br>
> work is Sun CC without the stlport option, and if that doesn't work on the<br>
> compiler that works on 9, you either use GCC, or you're out of luck.<br>
><br>
> I will not formally support it in any case. Solaris 9 is EOL for anybody<br>
> not paying Oracle for support, and any OS in that state becomes<br>
> unsupportable for an open source project like this one.<br>
<br>
But by all means, if you run into problems, ask on the list, as there<br>
are a few folks who are running on Solaris still (I have a couple<br>
Solaris 9 SPs yet). It's just that the Shib team isn't making any<br>
promises about it.<br>
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