The Intersect

I have a file lying around with instructions for getting around some OpenSolaris issues I’ve ran into lately, they may prove useful to others.
ld: fatal: file /opt/sunstudio12.1/prod/lib/crti.o: section .rela.annotate has invalid type [ SHT_RELA ]
ld is trying to do 64-bit linking on a non-64 bit system, do export LD_NOEXEC_64=1 and retry the compile.
readline warning turning [...]

A while back I bought quite an old box (a Compaq Evo) to use as a test system. This weekend I took a shot at getting OpenSolaris running on it, as the first step in my plan to move to OSOL from Ubuntu. Everything worked fine except networking. Fortunately, OSOL has one of the best [...]