[OmniOS-discuss] no headers in default install?

[Paul B. Henson]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 03:07:29PM -0500, Eric Sproul wrote:

> I don't think dev tools belong in a default install, but it should be
> easier to obtain the basics.

That works for me, it was just confusing to find a compiler and then
have it not work. If I recall correctly, I had to explicitly install the
linker package in the previous omnios release, but it was already there
on this one. Was that included unintentionally too?

> As a reference the omnios-build system has a list in the
> BasicRequirements() function:
[...]
> We could do a "convenience package" that would pull in all the right
> things to make it easier to get started.  Would that meet your needs?

That might be useful, although it's not a particularly long list, and
just documenting it on the wiki might be enough.

> FYI, I've opened http://omnios.omniti.com/ticket.php/42 to track this
> work.

Cool. This one's about resolved, but for future reference is there any
way to add yourself (as an omnios user) to the CC on a ticket to watch
it?

> Hopefully that will be the answer to life, the universe and
> everything.  ;)

Only if the question is "How many roads must a man walk down" :).

> Something else I neglected to mention earlier is that the gcc44
> package probably isn't what you want for general development anyway.

I was just trying to get iperf built for some quick kvm throughput
testing, 4.4 did the job. I'll install the latest version before I build
anything serious, thanks.

> source of the dependency.  Unfortunately the fix is too disruptive to
> backport to r151004, but it should be fixed soon in bloody.

Hmm, I'll probably be using bloody again soon, after I build my
virtualization box I'm going to want joyent's apix fix for sandy bridge:

https://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent/commit/4d86fb7f59410be72e467483b74e2eebff6052b2

which I believe recently made its way into illumos-gate. I'll also want
aclmode=restricted support on my box (if only for hubris) before six
months go by ;)...

> The fix will probably also remain private to OmniOS, as the runpaths
> are necessary for other distros that don't ship libstdc++.so.6.0.13 in
> /usr.

Interesting. gcc isn't in illumos-gate, so ips makes a dependency on a
package installed on the host building it? That seems kludgy. I vaguely
recall seeing some discussion about C++ runtimes on illumos-discuss, but
don't think it went anywhere. Maybe I'll dig through the archives to
refresh my memory and bring it back up.

Thanks for the quick answers and updates...