Re: Installing Crypt-DES-1.01 on Solaris

From: Michael Smith (msmith@staff.texas.net)
Date: Wed Feb 02 2000 - 17:49:40 EST


On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 04:40:35PM -0600, Bryan Wann wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Michael Smith wrote:
>
> > Here are the patches need to make CPAN's Crypt::DES 1.01 compile and
> > work on Solaris. Enjoy.
>
>
> Michael,
>
> Thanks for posting those patches, they seemed to do the trick;
> remind me to buy you a beer or something next time I'm down at Texas.Net.
> :)

Thanks, glad they could help.

>
> I was able to get it compiled and tested on Solaris 2.5.1 and 2.6
> without any problems. Tried it on a Solaris 7 x86 box, it compiled, then
> failed during 'make test'. But, it really isn't a problem for us, since
> all of our backend servers on which our OpenSRC stuff will be running are
> some type of sparc.
>
>
> Solaris 7 x86 compilation:

Here is the history on those patches. We developed them because of
the endian issue with the DES source code and sparcs.

In theory for Solaris 7 x86, you should be able to apply the des.h
patch (MINUS the change to the des_cblock) and do not apply the des.c patch.
As I said, in theory. I've heard the phrase "porting from Solaris 2.x to
Solaris 7" several times.

>
> gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)
> perl version 5.005_03 built for i86pc-solaris
>
>
[SNIP]

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