Pkgsrc on solaris

This is my attempt to convert opensolaris into a tolerable system using pkgsrc to provide some essential applications like zsh(1) and screen.

Getting GCC on the system

• Download gcc and libiconv packages from http://sunfreeware.com/
• gunzip the files and install them by doing `pkgadd -d </path/to/file>` as root
• Add /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin to $PATH as root

Bootstrapping pkgsrc

• Fetch the latest pkgsrc tarball from ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/
• cd into /usr
• gunzip </path/to/tarball> | tar -xvf -
• After the tarball is untarred, you should have /usr/pkgsrc
• cd into /usr/pkgsrc/bootstrap
• As root, run `./bootstrap` to bootstrap pkgsrc

Building gcc from pkgsrc

• add /usr/pkg/bin, /usr/pkg/sbin and /usr/ccs/bin to $PATH
• Run `crle -l /lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local:/usr/pkg/lib:/usr/pkg/lib/gcc3` as root
• cd into /usr/pkgsrc/lang/gcc3-c
• bmake install clean
• When that's done use pkginfo to find out the names of the sunfreeware packages you installed earlier and remove them.
• You should now have a working pkgsrc gcc with which to build applications.

...probably more to come...

Troubleshooting

libiconv fails to compile

Check that /usr/pkg/bin/libtool has AR='ar' set, if not, add /usr/ccs/bin to $PATH and rebuild/reinstall libtool-base

gtexinfo or gcc fail to compile due to missing libgcc_s.so.1

If gtexinfo bitches about a missing libgcc_s.so.1 try linking /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 to /usr/pkg/lib. This fixed the issue for me... Probably should remove this as soon as gtexinfo and gcc and build and rebuild gtexinfo once gcc is built from pkgsrc.