good platform to build da Vinci on?

[Raffaello Giulietti]

Christian Thalinger wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 16:57 +0200, Raffaello Giulietti wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> each time I download a newer da Vinci repository on my (virtual) Ubuntu,
>> I also get newer build error to chase and adjust. This is becoming
>> tedious, error-prone and requires too much time. Further, it doesn't
>> directly contribute to my project which consists in *using* the JVM
>> extensions to implement a dynamic language on top of the mlvm.
>>
>> So, rather than insisting with Ubuntu, I'm ready to switch to
>> (Open)Solaris (32 bits) instead and give up my attempts to build on Linux.
>>
>> Does anybody have experience with building da Vinci on (Open)Solaris?
>> Does it goes easily and without troubles? Are there special issues to
>> take into account?
> 
> Yes, I'm building mlvm (well, HotSpot) on OpenSolaris everyday and there
> are no troubles.  There could be some build problems with the newest Sun
> Studio version shipped in OpenSolaris, but I guess not.
> 
> -- Christian
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Hi Christian,

I'm having troubles with mercurial's own mq extensions.

I just installed OpenSolaris and extended it according to the general
OpenJDK build instructions, then added mercurial and the forest
extensions. But while the forest extensions work flawlessly (I could
download da Vinci), the mq extensions do not, although they should come
preinstalled. And yes, the flags are configured in the .hgrc file
according to the build instructions of the mlvm (I tried both mq= and
hgext.mq=).

Did you (or anybody watching) encounter similar problems with
mercurial/OpenSolaris.2009-06?

Thanks
Raffaello