Re: [Freeipmi-devel] how to transfer installation binaries to other pc

[Al Chu]

Hey Michal,

> my effort is to create a 
> OpenSolaris package for freeipmi and make this package available in 
> OpenSolaris package repositories ..

Cool. 

> Honestly, the build ran out-of-box (I've just checked out 
> freeipmi from CVS and build it). 

That's good :-)

> Did you make some adjustments in the 
> code regarding the Solaris OS?

Yes, the 0.7.0 does have changes for Solaris.  They were all generic
porting issues between *nix systems.  Solaris uses a different number of
arguments to gethostbyname_r, the argp parsing library didn't exist on
solaris, a whole bunch of strXXX() functions weren't on solaris, various
Makefile tweaks for portability, etc.

The sunbmc driver has not been tested at all in FreeIPMI 0.7.0.  So if
you have a system with that driver, it'd be good to see if FreeIPMI
0.7.0 implements things correctly.

Thanks,
Al

On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 19:59 +0200, Michal Bachorik wrote:
> Hi Al,
> 
> no, not at all - I primary work on other task, while porting freeipmi to 
> opensolaris is a side-task (but important). Well, I'd be glad if I can 
> co-operate with you regarding this - my effort is to create a 
> OpenSolaris package for freeipmi and make this package available in 
> OpenSolaris package repositories ..
> 
> So far I was able tried to build freeipmi on a OpenSolaris box (as a 
> part of opensolaris build process ..) but I have not tested the 
> functionality. Honestly, the build ran out-of-box (I've just checked out 
> freeipmi from CVS and build it). Did you make some adjustments in the 
> code regarding the Solaris OS?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Michal
> 
> Al Chu wrote:
> > Hey Michal,
> >
> > I hope you didn't do too much work, I did porting for Solaris in the
> > FreeIPMI 0.7.0 :-)  (hopefully released in a month or so).  You can
> > download the beta off the webpage.
> >
> >   
> >> PRobably I have overlooked something ..
> >>     
> >
> > I did a quick check, and FreeIPMI 0.7.0 does properly "make dist" on my
> > system (SunOS 5.11).  Maybe you'll want to give it a crack instead?
> >
> > Al
> >
> > On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 11:29 +0200, Michal Bachorik - Sun Microsystems -
> > Prague Czech Republic wrote:
> >   
> >> Hi guys,
> >>
> >> I'm trying to port freeipmi to OpenSolaris - build is not a problem, but 
> >> I need to transfer the built stuff (ideally some kind of installation 
> >> binaries) to other host to test them. I have tried "make dist" and I 
> >> thought that the produced tarball containsed all necessary stuff to just 
> >> do "make install" on other host, but to my surprise it did not.
> >>
> >> PRobably I have overlooked something ..
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Michal
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> 
> 
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Albert Chu
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