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Thursday September 28, 2006

Sun Studio and patchadd -G

Because Sun Studio 11 wasn't very zone savvy, we decided to install it with the -G option so that it always installed in a global zone. Unfortunately the advanced patch tools like updatemanager and smpatch don't deal very well with patches to products that were installed with -G. (see bug 6374972, visible on bugs.opensolaris.org). So to work around that, you have to install the patches using the patchadd command for now. If the Solaris group fixes 6374972 then I think the problem would go away. Of course, there is also a bug filed for Sun Studio to be zone-savvy and support installing into whatever zone the user wants. Fixing that bug (bug 6447164, visible on bugs.sun.com) might also result in better cooperation with updatemanager and smpatch.

Posted by Chris Quenelle ( Sep 28 2006, 02:51:20 PM PDT ) - Permalink - - Sun Studio

Linux dbx patch available!! (for Sun Studio 11)

There are some really annoying dbx bugs in Sun Studio 11 FCS. It's been about a year now that we've been finding and fixing these bugs and making the fixes available in Solaris patch. But the Linux patch only came out recently. Also, the linux patch doesn't seem to show up on the official Sun Studio patches web page. It does show up on Misha's blog, which I read, but somehow the dbx linux patch didn't catch my eye. Anyway, the patch-id is 121619-01, and you can find it on sunsolve.

Download the patch here.

Posted by Chris Quenelle ( Sep 28 2006, 01:14:03 PM PDT ) - Permalink - - Dbx

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• command-not-found for OpenSolaris?
• Goodbye Solaris 9 (for Sun Studio)
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• New dbx blog!
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• Using dbx and libumem to find memory problems
• Latest Sun dwarf extensions
• dbx .ldynsym support - stack traces for stripped programs
• Using LDAP inside Sun
• gnome kstats
• Calling Sun Studio users...
• Compiler options by category and platform
• What do you call 64-bits?
• Sun Studio resources on genunix.org
• mod_auth_ldap
• Find Data Races and Deadlocks
• Goodbye -xarch=amd64, hello -m64
• Intel and Sun
• Sun Studio Express 3 lives again!
• Sun Studio Express 3 -- bad tarballs
• Sun Studio Wiki
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• OpenID starting to take off (finally)
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• malloc interposition can't possibly work reliabily
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• Enterprise versus The Developer
• Data Race in my last example
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• Attempting to tame StarOffice HTML
• My single greatest accomplishment
• Empty hallways ...
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• Markets without Marketing
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• Community and Terminology
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• /bin considered harmful
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• Reporting bugs
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• Installing dual boot
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