Re: Building OSKit on Solaris 2.6

To: justice@cis.ohio-state.edu, oskit-users@cs.utah.edu
Subject: Re: Building OSKit on Solaris 2.6
From: Mike Hibler <mike@fast.cs.utah.edu>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 16:12:44 -0600 (MDT)
Sender: owner-oskit-users@fast.cs.utah.edu

> From: john raymond justice <justice@cis.ohio-state.edu>
> Subject: Building OSKit on Solaris 2.6
> To: oskit-users@cs.utah.edu
> Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 14:04:13 -0400 (EDT)
> 
> Hi there.  I'm trying to build OSKit with --enamble-uniexamples for use as a demonstration OS in an OS lab course.  Unfortunately, the switch doesn't appear to be supported in oskit-20000202, and under the original OSkit .97 I get a message stating that sparc is an unsupported architecture.  Is it possible to run recent versions of OSKit on top of an existing UNIX system, and if so is ia32 hardware required?  Thanks much.
> 
> --John Justice
> 

We have not "hosted" the OSKit on anything other than FreeBSD or Linux on
an x86 box.  The actual amount of code you would have to write to do so
is pretty small (see, for example, the contents of unix/linux).  But you
would likely have to do some additional work to make sure that architecture
specific libraries such as libkern or liblinux_dev don't get built.

If you decide to do this, let us know how it goes!