[hobbit] Pre-req setup problem for Hobbit

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 07:32:34AM -0400, Wes Neal wrote:
> I have used BB for 5 years now, but am building a new hoBBit server
> currently.  I am just trying to get the pre-reqs in place and am having
> problems with RRDtool because of a dependency it has on Freetype 2.  I have
> posted a question to the freetype mailing list but maybe someone knows here
> as well.  I am running Solaris 8 and trying to compile freetype 2.1.9.  I am
> getting this error doing the configure:
> 
> checking for egrep... configure: error: no acceptable egrep could be found
> in $PATH
> make: *** [builds/unix/unix-def.mk] Error 1
> 
> There are are two egrep commands in $PATH, I am not sure why it is
> complaining unless by default neither of them do what it wants.  I don't
> know of a newer or better egrep though to get.
> 
> Anyone got any ideas?

I must admit I took the easy way out and just installed a load of
packages from the sunfreeware.com site a couple of months ago when I 
had to setup a Hobbit server on Solaris 8.

Here's the list of packages I used (not all of them needed for Hobbit,
but I sure do prefer bash to ksh...):

autoconf-2.59 automake-1.9 bash-3.0 binutils-2.11.2 bison-1.875d
coreutils-4.5.4 cpio-2.4.2 curl-7.12.2 daemontools-0.70 diffutils-2.8.1
djbdns-1.03 expat-1.95.5 findutils-4.1.20 flex-2.5.31 fontconfig-2.2.98
fping-2.4b2 freetype-2.1.9 gawk-3.1.4 gcc-3.3.2 gd-2.0.33 gdb-6.0
gettext-0.14.1 giflib-4.1.0 glib-1.2.10 grep-2.5 groff-1.19.1
gtk+-1.2.10 gzip-1.3.5 imlib-1.9.14 jpeg-6b less-381 libiconv-1.8
libpng-1.2.8 libungif-4.1.0 logrotate-3.6.9 lsof-4.74 make-3.80 mtr-0.42
mutt-1.4.2.1 ncftp-3.0.1 ncurses-5.4 netsnmp-5.1.1 ntp-4.2.0
openldap-1.2.11 openssh-4.1p1 openssl-0.9.7g patch-2.5.4 pcre-4.5
popt-1.7 pstree-2.17 rcs-5.7 readline-5.0 rrdtool-1.0.49 rsync-2.6.5
sed-4.1.1 sudo-1.6.8p4 tar-1.15.1 tiff-3.7.1 top-3.5.1 ucspitcp-0.88
vim-6.3 wget-1.9.1 xpm-3.4k zlib-1.2.2


Regards,
Henrik