Vijay Tatkar's Blog

Thursday July 31, 2008

Using Sun Studio Express 7/08 on OpenSolaris 2008.05
A note to add if you are using OpenSolaris and want to use Sun Studio Express 7/08 with it:
OpenSolaris 2008.05 has a mechanism that lets you point it to the latest repository. The facility is usually:
# pkg set-authority opensolaris.org
 If you use it to update packages to the latest builds, there is a chance that you might run into a mismatch between various packages that might cause dbx to not work. The problem manifests itself while debugging 32bit MT applications with  messages like:
dbx: warning: could not initialize thread debugging library -- debugger service failed
dbx: warning: thread related commands will not be available
Or a message such as:
ld.so.1: ld: fatal: libld.so.4: version `SUNWprivate_4.2' not found
This is usually due to a mismatch between ld and liblddbg.so in packages such as SUNWtoo and SUNWcsr
If you run into this problem, or better still to avoid this problem, the advice is to stay on the OpenSolaris 2008.05 version and not upgrade to the latest builds.
Alternately, at least at this stage, updating the entire system also works (since everything stays in sync), but there is no guarantee that this will continue to always be the case, so its best to avoid doing this upgrade.

Posted by tatkar ( Jul 31 2008, 08:14:10 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [2]

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