Monday, 6 July 2009

JDK 1.6 native build on OpenBSD 4.6-snapshot

The time is near, another upgrade is on the horizon.

I have previously built complete OpenBSD releases, both kernel, userland and ports, but not anymore!

Now I take a snapshot around the time I want to upgrade (try to avoid the developer frenzy just after a new release has been tagged). I then rebuild a GENERIC.MP kernel, with RAIDframe added - I still use RAIDframe a few places. Using this I can update the base operating system quite easily.

Then comes the ports, and STOP! Why build ports?! The OpenBSD developers explicitly say that you should use the binary packag More text

Posted by hlk at CEST 14:07 06/07/2009 in Java

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Wednesday, 1 July 2009

Perl IPv6 sockets, grmpf

This blog entry is about IO::Socket::INET6 - Object interface for AF_INET|AF_INET6 domain sockets which is used for IPv6 socket communication from Perl.

Make sure that you install the module first. Using Backtrack 4 pre final I used something like:

hlk@sylvia:~$ sudo apt-get install libio-socket-inet6-perl

The built-in Perl from /usr/bin/perl on Mac OS X has this module, but if you are using a locally built /usr/local/bin/perl from Macports or Fink you might not have it inst More text

Posted by hlk at CEST 11:07 01/07/2009 in Toolbox entries

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