Nice repo you've built man... :) Kudos !

... Does Alacarte work for you...?

In live media it works fine, but in my USB HDD install ( Solaris 11 Express ) and in my VMs it was buggy...


Does your repo has any form of dependency handling, or are your packages statically linked...?

In Blastwave, for instance, there is a dependency handler...

One thing i never undestood quite well is Solaris build system... :

Despite PATH explicitly having /usr/bin set, one must type EXPORT PATH=/usr/bin:$PATH in the shell to have ndis-1.2.5 built... if not, the compilation yelds lots of errors...

seems there are two coexisting worlds... the GNU and the Sun... but when to activate one and not the other... ?


...I'm a complete n00b for Solaris matters... :)

EDIT: Those packages are nonstandard allright... nonetheless one needs nothing more to work as engineer :

A 2D cad : QCad
A 3D cad : Blender ( exports STL ) and BRLCAD exports STL and iges
A Powerfull Scripting Environment : Octave, Scilab, iPython ( does OpenIndiana have numPy, and sciPy and sciTools ...? Python is quite powerful with these ...)
2D graphing tools : Grace, Gnuplot
CFD analysis : Code Saturne, Gerris, OpenFOAM
FEA analysis : Calculix, Syrthes, Impact
pre/Post processing : Calculix, Paraview, Gmsh, Netgen
Spreadsheet : OpenOffice Calc, Gnumeric ( this last one is Python Scriptable )

It is quite a pitty that most of those can be readily built for Linux, but in solaris it is difficult...

There is no definitive answer. The issue is there are two incompatible sets of Unix utilities, the regular Solaris one in /usr/bin and the Gnu one in /usr/gnu/bin. Depending on what the scripts you'll run expect, you have to pick the good one and it's usually /usr/bin.

It's a dated machine: CPU is a Pentium 4 2.66 GHz, has 1.25 GiB RAM, and the GPU is an NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT. Honestly, I'd say OpenGL is included OOB in OSOL/OI; no need to install it manually.

Unless I'm missing something here... :scratch:

Hi

It is included allright... i was having difficulty in finding some headers to compile some stuff i built... but they are there allright...

Well I don't even know what Alacarte is!

In most cases, you need ASgettext-0.17 and ASlibiconv-1.13.1 but otherwise the packages are
"selfcontained".

That is true, but I have compiled all GNU tools myself so to be uptodate and in most cases I stick
to the GNU world since most applications have been written by Linux people for Linux. Of course,
this is bad because they use the commonly known Gnuisms and Linuxisms that make code extremely
unportable...

I have compiled some of these in the past (blender, Gnumeric, Gnuplot), OpenOffice is available for Solaris,
but I am not aware of the other programs. As far it regards numPy etc these are Python modules and should
work in Solaris (I remember I had installed numPy once).

I am sure one can build most of these. But I don't have enough time to try to compile all these :(