Codestrom - The Wandering Programmer

opensolaris cw(1M) manual

I can never find this man page and I keep forgetting to add the onbld tools man pages to the search path.. so..

http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/tools/cw/cw.1

cw basically converts the sun cc compile options over to something gcc will understand and does the behind the scenes shadow compiling. Outside of onnv-gate this has a lot of uses, but is probably pretty unknown. I'd say if you are building or porting a lot of applications you should take a look.  If nothing else you learn how to turn off shadow compiling and shave a few minutes off your nightly onnv-gate build.

OpenSolaris gcc-4.4 direct download

h3sp4wn has been hacking on getting a pure 64bit build of gcc going on OSUNIX.. This should also work on OpenSolaris or maybe even Solaris.. Anyway.. rough patches and binaries are at..

http://pkg.osunix.org/gcc/

You should be able to directly extract this to /opt/ and add /opt/gcc64/bin to your path.. I forget if this build was with gnu as and gnu ld, but a build with sun ld is forthcoming..

Point is I hope it saves someone some time.. Let us know..

OpenSolaris - slow boot fix

If you've installed opensolaris 11/08 and unhappily found it's slow as mud to boot..

# edit /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst
# look for the lines like.. below and remove them..

splashimage /boot/solaris.xpm
foreground d25f00
background 115d93

# next find the kernel line and change from
--kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS,console=graphics
++kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS

My boot time went from longer than 5 minutes to under 30 seconds. and you get to see the svc errors :)

lifewithsolaris is back!

still around, but I don't know about it.. Frankly, I wish the author would contact me so we can setup a .ru mirror and ignore such legal garbage..

So back to the point.. lifewithsolaris is gone, but be assured that like Ubuntu and every other linux distribution the OSUNIX project is going to make it easy/sane to get all your multimedia functionality with a few clicks.  I did the port of mplayer to sun cc a while back and recently spent some time trying to merge that patch with mplayer trunk, but realized it's simply not the best solution long term.  Anyway.. so if you're interested in how to easily get mplayer rolling on OpenSolaris shoot me an email or leave a comment.. For now I'm still working on OSUNIX so we can replace hack solutions like lifewithsolaris long term.

ps.. Sorry for the misleading topic, but google needs to know about this..
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OpenSolaris @ FOSDEM 09

So trying to catch up a bit since after FOSDEM this year, but I must say that despite the really poor schedule I made a ton of marketing contacts for the OSUNIX project.  Hopefully, once things are a bit more stable we'll be able to get a bit of free PR to help squash the competition.. Speaking of which.. I'm about to rant about.. So.. to all those who worked so hard at FOSDEM this year.. a big thanks.. Next year I plan to speak about some of the OSUNIX innovations going on and have a booth.  If you were at FOSDEM and didn't get a chance to say hi. drop me an email..