Installing patches on Solaris 10 seems to take ages. When I was installing a couple of them recently, an interesting process showed up when I used ps to see what it was upto exactly. /usr/bin/wc -c /usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.5.0/jre/lib/rt.jar, apparently, rather than using the obvious way of asking the filesystem for the size of a certain file, [...]
Because somehow (;)) search engines link here for search queries involving arj and solaris, I decided I might as well put something helpful up here. The http://arj.sourceforge.net/ software compiled fine for me on solaris 10. That is, it produced a running binary, didn’t have any .arj files to test it on. With gcc it compiled [...]
The release of the long-awaited new version of irssi 0.8.10 caused problems quite similar to bitlbee about a month ago when I tried to compile it on Solaris 10. The ./configure complained about a broken ltmain.sh, and later on about not being able to link dynamic libraries and modules (due to the broken ltmain.sh probably). [...]
A couple of days ago there was a new release of bitlbee and to my pleasant surprise the #!/bin/sh in the configure-script now isn’t expected to be a bash-compatible sh anymore, which used to lead to: $ ./configure BitlBee configure ./configure: test: argument expected $ with bitlbee 0.92 on Solaris and probably other systems. It [...]