With the demise of sunfreeware, where does one get packages now. I got two new Sun T5-2 machines and I need to recompile Amanda on them to get zfs support. But the never ending dependency chain stops me. I don't have time for that anymore. Life is so much easier on Linux.
Paul.
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Betsy Schwartz
Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2014 2:18 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] 4.3.16 make depends on gnu find/xargs
I'm not doing much Solaris any more, but it makes life a lot easier if you install all the gnu packages (gcc, binutils, coreutils, etc) and make sure that your systems all hit them first. You can also find them in /opt/sfw but that's usually a much older version.
Open source SW is overwhelmingly developed under linux these days, so unless you've got a strong reason for keeping the Sun/Oracle stuff first (like, running a lot of in-house code that requires Sun/Oracle compilers, or systems that are super locked down), going GNU-ish will just make your life much saner.