[rsyslog] rsyslog 4.4.1 and solaris

[Corey Smith]

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Rainer Gerhards<rgerhards at hq.adiscon.com> wrote:
> Can you tell me what i need to do to get the recent gcc under solaris? I am quite solaris illiterate, but have a vm where i compile (and upgrade) the solaris branch from time to time. Getting v5 ready, too, would be a big step :)

I come from a FreeBSD background so the Solaris package management
system leaves much to be desired.  The limitations of the default
toolset in Solaris are amazing.  That is why I started using pkgsrc -
a portable package management system originally developed for netbsd.

The way I got gcc44 working on Solaris 10/Sparc64:

Download, install pkgsrc and bootstrap using the gcc from sunfreeware
(3.4) # Check out:
http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/platforms.html#solaris
Install pkgsrc-wip using a cvs checkout # Check out:
http://pkgsrc-wip.sourceforge.net/
Replace the wip/rsyslog port with the one I attached earlier on the thread.
Build rsyslog and dependencies using gcc3.4
Install gcc44 from wip/gcc44 and make the changes I described in the
first message of the thread
cd /usr/pkgsrc/wip/rsyslog && make update # rebuild rsyslog with gcc44

On a side note: I tried building rsyslog-5 from git which compiled but
would core every time I started it.

BTW: Which virtual machine are you using to emulate sparc64?

-Corey Smith