Solaris

primo · 02-23-2006, 02:41 PM

Does anyone knows of the best autoconf hack to sort through the many paths that may contain libraries (in my case, OpenSSL) in Solaris ?

On a Solaris box I found it in /usr/sfw/ so I had to use -I/usr/sfw/include and -L/usr/sfw/lib. I'd like to have #HAVE_OPENSSL_RIPEMD_H defined and have the configure script to search the available directories.

How can I know where a package (openssl) is installed ?

technopark02 · 02-23-2006, 07:11 PM

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How can I know where a package (openssl) is installed ?

1. Get the exact package name with "pkginfo | grep -i openssl"
2. Run "pkginfo -r <pkgname>" to get the installation location (or base directory)

If (2) returns "/", then check under the standard locations.

jlliagre · 02-24-2006, 01:08 AM

After you figure out the package name, you can display all files belonging to it with the command:

Code:

pkgchk -v <pkgname>

primo · 02-24-2006, 03:09 AM

Thanks a lot technopark02 and jlliagre.
I think I'm gonna use this information on a shell script and provide multiple -L and -I's to gcc.

technopark02 · 02-24-2006, 03:53 PM

Some additional information, for the records:

"grep <pkgname> /var/sadm/install/contents" will show the exact file names, and their locations where they were installed

jlliagre · 02-24-2006, 04:07 PM

And reciprocally,
"grep <file-pattern> /var/sadm/install/contents" whill show you the package name a file is belonging to.

One warning though, this file is marked as "unstable interface" in the Solaris documentation, which means any use of it may break in the future, including it may disappear as a file and be replaced by something else, like say a database.