On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 08:00:57AM -0500, Dan Warburton wrote:
> > >
> > > Perhaps we should remove them from "Display" in 0.8.5.
> >
> > Sure, that sounds good.
> >
> > I'm looking at releasing 0.8.5 early next week. I had hoped to do it
> > this week, but I'm finding myself rather busy. At work we're finishing up
> > our essay for the Software Carpentry competition (build tool).
> >
>
> Gil,
> Guy just walked me thru a Solaris Build, would it be usefull to
> have a solaris binary release? I'm thinking a tar file with ethereal and
> a set of compatible libraries:
>
> Something like this. (no snmp)
>
>
> orion{warb}-> tar -tvf ethereal_solaris.tar
> drwxrwxrwx root/sys 0 2000-03-29 10:28:46 ethereal_solaris/
> -rwxrwxrwx root/sys 12569688 2000-03-29 10:11:30 ethereal_solaris/ethereal
> -rw-rw-rw- root/sys 9843600 2000-03-29 10:12:36
> ethereal_solaris/libgtk-1.2.so.0
> -rw-rw-rw- root/sys 2084832 2000-03-29 10:20:11
> ethereal_solaris/libgdk-1.2.so.0
> -rw-rw-rw- root/sys 37984 2000-03-29 10:20:28
> ethereal_solaris/libgmodule-1.2.so.0
> -rw-rw-rw- root/sys 824224 2000-03-29 10:21:03
> ethereal_solaris/libglib-1.2.so.0
> -rwxrwxrwx root/sys 570 2000-03-29 15:18:33
> ethereal_solaris/ethereal.csh <<< sets the LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
A binary release would be useful for a lot of folks. Are any of the prerequisite
libraries already packaged at one of the Solaris Freeware sites? If they were,
then you wouldn't need to package the libs.
--gilbert