[Box Backup] Solaris Installation notes

[Rob Shepherd]

FYI: You may be interested in some notes on compiling and installing on

Solaris 9 x86  hw-09/04

using gcc 3.4.1

the solaris patch was only sucessful when done thusly.

$ cd /tmp
$ tar -xf boxbackup-0.09.tar
$ gpatch -p0 < boxbackup-0.09-solaris.patch

notice the use of gpatch, -p0 and no 'cd' into the source dir.

I use http://www.blastwave.org for binary packages. (csw)

$ pkg-get install openssl gmake readline

(GNU) readline is required but not checked by configure.
I also got gmake for compatability

I make sure `ar` and `ranlib` are in the path

$ export PATH=${PATH}:/usr/ccs/bin

I make sure gmake is used

$ export MAKE=gmake

configure looks like this

./configure openssl:/opt/csw link:-lsocket link:-lnsl

readline is also in /opt/csw so it is picked up. solaris socket and
nameservice libraries are also required.

build sucessful.

Now for installation and execution..... watch this space :)

HTH

Rob