Disclaimer: the sunfreeware
pre-compiled version installed ok. So clearly they know something
I dont!
I tried to configure/make install it
myself and failed.
address@hidden/var/tmp/patch-2.6>
./configure checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output
file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works...
yes checking whether we are cross compiling...
no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files...
o checking whether we are using the GNU
C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO
C89... none needed checking how to run the C preprocessor...
gcc -E checking for a BSD-compatible install...
./install-sh -c checking whether make sets $(MAKE)...
yes checking for ed... /usr/bin/ed checking for bash... /usr/bin/bash checking build system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.10 checking host system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.10 checking for grep that handles long
lines and -e... /usr/sfw/bin/ggrep checking for egrep... /usr/sfw/bin/ggrep
-E checking for ANSI C header files...
yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking minix/config.h usability...
no checking minix/config.h presence...
no checking for minix/config.h... no checking whether it is safe to define
__EXTENSIONS__... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO
C99... -std=gnu99 checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to
accept ISO Standard C... (cached) -std=gnu99 checking for special C compiler options
needed for large files... no checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value
needed for large files... 64 checking for ANSI C header files...
(cached) yes checking fcntl.h usability... yes checking fcntl.h presence... yes checking for fcntl.h... yes checking utime.h usability... yes checking utime.h presence... yes checking for utime.h... yes checking for mode_t... yes checking for off_t... yes checking for stdbool.h that conforms
to C99... yes checking for _Bool... yes checking sys/time.h usability... yes checking sys/time.h presence... yes checking for sys/time.h... yes checking for utime.h... (cached) yes checking for struct utimbuf... yes checking for d_ino member in directory
struct... yes checking whether system is Windows or
MSDOS... no checking for long file names... yes checking for pathconf... yes checking whether // is distinct from
/... no checking whether strerror_r is declared...
yes checking for strerror_r... yes checking whether strerror_r returns
char *... no checking for error_at_line... no checking for memchr... yes checking getopt.h usability... yes checking getopt.h presence... yes checking for getopt.h... yes checking for getopt_long_only... yes checking whether optreset is declared...
no checking for working GNU getopt function...
no checking whether getenv is declared...
yes checking for ssize_t... yes checking for strcasecmp... yes checking for strncasecmp... yes checking for inline... inline checking whether the compiler generally
respects inline... yes checking whether mktemp is declared...
yes checking for geteuid... yes checking for getuid... yes checking for mktemp... yes checking for raise... yes checking for sigaction... yes checking for sigprocmask... yes checking for sigsetmask... no checking for _LARGEFILE_SOURCE value
needed for large files... no checking whether clearerr_unlocked is
declared... no checking whether feof_unlocked is declared...
no checking whether ferror_unlocked is
declared... no checking whether fflush_unlocked is
declared... no checking whether fgets_unlocked is declared...
no checking whether fputc_unlocked is declared...
no checking whether fputs_unlocked is declared...
no checking whether fread_unlocked is declared...
no checking whether fwrite_unlocked is
declared... no checking whether getc_unlocked is declared...
yes checking whether getchar_unlocked is
declared... yes checking whether putc_unlocked is declared...
yes checking whether putchar_unlocked is
declared... yes checking whether malloc, realloc, calloc
are POSIX compliant... yes checking for dirent.h that defines DIR...
yes checking for library containing opendir...
none required checking whether closedir returns void...
no checking for fcntl.h... (cached) yes checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes checking for DOS-style setmode... no checking for vprintf... yes checking for _doprnt... yes checking for mkdir... yes checking whether mkdir takes only one
argument... no checking whether system is Windows or
MSDOS... (cached) no checking for long file names... (cached)
yes configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating config.h config.status: config.h is unchanged address@hidden/var/tmp/patch-2.6>make make: Fatal error in reader: Makefile,
line 49: Unexpected end of line seen address@hidden/var/tmp/patch-2.6>
gmake ./update-version.sh: syntax error
at line 24: `(' unexpected gmake: *** [VERSION] Error 2
Server was initially installed with
Update 8, and has the Sep2010 patches installed
SunOS sol10server 5.10 Generic_142909-17
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