One of the tools I build on new unix boxes after I get a toolchain of some kind (vendor or GNU) is invariably emacs.

I've been working on Solaris 10 more lately, and found that emacs wouldn't build, and I found that odd... clearly other people had got it to …

With a full make clobber that it has to do on the source tree before it can start to compile, the OpenSolaris nightly build takes a long time:

(5) mcclung@dogstar: time nightly ./opensolaris.sh
40724.25u 7185.90s 15:02:27.12 88.4%

This is 5.11 svn_38 …

Recently, I bought a Sunblade 150 off of Ebay to experiment with OpenSolaris. I considered getting another PC specifically for this project, but eventually my nostalgia for Sun SPARC gear won out and I got it... it wasn't even that expensive. I did end up replacing the RAM and adding …