pkgsrc and OpenSolaris 2008.05 - made easy

This is something that’s been bugging me for ages. I could not easily make pkgsrc bootstrap and compile packages under OpenSolaris. Today I cracked it:

1. Grab the latest stable tarball and gtar xzf it somewhere sensible (under /usr is good).

2. pfexec pkg install SUNWgcc sunstudioexpress SUNWgmake

3. pfexec pkg install SUNWxwinc

4. pfexec pkg install SUNWcvs SUNWgnome-common-devel

5. su

6. cd /usr/pkgsrc/bootstrap

7. export PATH=/usr/ccs/bin:$PATH

8. ./bootstrap

9. <patience>
10. Edit your .bash_profile to make sure /usr/pkg is in your path

And you’re done! Working a charm for me here.