Platform Notes (Solaris/Illumos)

Port Category

The Solaris port is a Tier 1 Port

Verified Releases

• 0.59.0 (Solaris 10 sparc64, 4 Aug 2023)
• 0.59.0 (Solaris 7 sparc32, 4 Aug 2023)
• 0.59.0 (Solaris 11.4 i86pc, 4 Aug 2023)
• 0.57.0 (Solaris 11.3 sparc64, 4 Aug 2023)

Build Notes

Solaris 7

• If using the old sunfreeware.com GNU toolchain packages on Solaris 7, you will need the latest 7_Recommended.zip patch cluster.
• The mktemp utility may lock up several times during the configure phase. If this happens, you may simply kill the process with pkill -9 mktemp. This does not appear to harm the build.

Solaris 8

On Solaris 8, you can install a binary release:

$ sudo pkgadd -d CLDfreem-<version>-solaris5.8-sparcv9.pkg

Once this is done, add yourself to the freem group, and start the FreeM daemon as follows:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/freem start

Solaris 9

TBD

Solaris 10

We build with the IPS packages for the GNU toolchain here.

Solaris 11

We build with the IPS packages for the GNU toolchain here.

Necessary Packages

$pkg install gcc automake autoconf gnu-make git readline libtool texinfo ncurses

Dealing with ncurses

You will need to tell the configure script not to bother with the wide-character ncurses library:

$ ./configure --without-ncursesw

Testing Details

We build and test the Solaris port of FreeM on the following systems:

Sun Ultra 10

• Sun Ultra 10 with a 400MHz UltraSPARC-IIi CPU (64-bit)
• 640MB RAM
• Solaris 8
• gcc v4.8.0
• autoconf 2.69
• automake 1.16.5

Sun SPARCserver 20

• Sun SPARCserver 20 with dual 100MHz Ross HyperSPARC CPUs (32-bit)
• 512MB RAM
• Solaris 7 with the latest 7_Recommended.zip patch cluster applied (REQUIRED FOR SOLARIS 7)
• gcc v3.4.6
• autoconf 2.68
• automake 1.11.1

SunFire T2000

• Sun UltraSPARC T1 CPU (64-bit)
• Solaris 11.3
• gcc v4.8.2
• autoconf 2.68
• automake 1.11.2

x86 VM

• ESXi Virtual Machine (amd64)
• Solaris 11.4
• gcc v7.3.0
• autoconf 2.69
• automake 1.15

This port should theoretically run on any Solaris or Illumos machine running Solaris 7 or newer. Solaris/Illumos platforms other than the above have not been tested.

Required Kernel Tuning

Coming soon.

Starting FreeM Daemon Automatically

• Copy scripts/solaris-init/freem to /etc/init.d
• Make a symbolic link from /etc/rc3.d/S20freem to /etc/init.d/freem
• Run /etc/init.d/freem start