Solaris 9/8 Compatibility

I would like to know if there is any documentation that speaks to the compatibility of applications developed under Solaris 9 and run on Solaris 8.

See this:
http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/programs/guarantee.html

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  • Solaris 8 binary compatibility - Solaris 7

    Greetings:
    and TIA.
    Also apologies if this issue has been covered via some other resource.
    Note: Hardware Utilized - Sparc
    We have recently ported our 4.2 Forte C++/C code successfully from Solaris 6 to Solaris 8. As part of that port, we upgraded the compiler resources from 4.2 to 6.0. With these new binaries we have encountered the following runtime issue:
    Solaris 8 code runs fine on Solaris 8, however these same executables dump core on Solaris 7
    To troubleshoot this, we built the same code on a Solaris 7 platform. These executables ran fine on both Solaris 7 and Solaris 8
    My question: Are Solaris 8 binaries incompatible with Solaris 7? Is there any online documentations which provides an overview/explanation for this behavior?
    Regards:

    In general there is forward compatibility for applications between Solaris releases. There is no official backward compatibility. This means you
    should always compile on the oldest release of
    Solaris that you expectto run on. So, if you need
    to run on Solaris 5.6, 7 and 8, compile on Solaris 5.6.
    There is a tool called appcert which is shipped with
    later versions of Solaris 8 and can be downloaded from:
    http://www.sun.com/developers/tools/appcert/download.html
    That will give you a good idea of the forward and backward compatibility of your application. General ABI information can be found at:
    http://www.sun.com/developers/tools/abi/index.html
    Alan
    Sun Developer Technical Support
    http://www.sun.com/developers/support

  • Solaris 8 backwards compatibility

    Hi,
    I am about to begin some java development for the Solaris 8 platform on SPARC, and am setting up a dev server. I'd rather install Solaris 9 for reasons of general superiority, but are there any reasons that compiled java binaries from v9 would have problems running on a v8 platform when its deployed? It won't be particularly low-level design: just some database access, tcp/ip SOAP messaging, and XML manipulations.
    thanks
    aj

    In general there is forward compatibility for applications between Solaris releases. There is no official backward compatibility. This means you
    should always compile on the oldest release of
    Solaris that you expectto run on. So, if you need
    to run on Solaris 5.6, 7 and 8, compile on Solaris 5.6.
    There is a tool called appcert which is shipped with
    later versions of Solaris 8 and can be downloaded from:
    http://www.sun.com/developers/tools/appcert/download.html
    That will give you a good idea of the forward and backward compatibility of your application. General ABI information can be found at:
    http://www.sun.com/developers/tools/abi/index.html
    Alan
    Sun Developer Technical Support
    http://www.sun.com/developers/support

  • Solaris 10 binary compatibility

    hello everybody,
    I need some help. my application can run on solaris 2.6 x86 and solaris 9 x86 but not on solaris 10 x86. can anybody suggested to me what are the wor around that I can try to make my application also run on solaris 10 x86.

    That's what I expected, but if you look at:
    http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/ontheinside/
    They say:
    Guaranteed application compatibility from release to release as well as between SPARC and x86 platforms so you can run the same OS from your desktop to your datacenter.
    ???

  • Solaris 10 binary compatibility sparc/x86

    Hi,
    is it possible to use software compiled on Solaris 10 sparc on a x86 system?
    Thanks for any hints in advance.
    Burkhard

    That's what I expected, but if you look at:
    http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/ontheinside/
    They say:
    Guaranteed application compatibility from release to release as well as between SPARC and x86 platforms so you can run the same OS from your desktop to your datacenter.
    ???

  • Solaris 6 Library Compatibility with Solaris 7 Application?

    I have a library (code/objects) that is compiled in 2.6 and I need to make an application (on Solaris 2.7) that inter-works with this library. According to SUN's statement, 2.6 and 2.7 are binary compatible. Will my 2.7 application work properly with my 2.6 library on my 2.7 SUN?
    Thanks.

    we have ported our product to solaris 5.7 from solaris5.6. With this version we are unable to install the product on solaris 5.6. It is unable to find the following libraries in 5.6, while installing and finally it is failing.
    libMrm.so.4
    libXm.so.4
    libgen.so.3
    Is there any way to make my product work on both versions of solaris?

  • Business objects xi 3.1 sp3 on solaris , is it compatable with jdk 1.6

    i installed business objects xi 3.1 sp3 on soalris and we are using apache tomcat web application server. wheni read  Supported Platform document it says business objects comes with jdk 1.5 . do we have an option such that we can point to jdk 1.6. we are having jdk 1.6 in the /usr/jdk.1.6.023. can we point our whole business objects to that jdk 1.6.
    help appreciated
    thanks

    Hi,
    i know that you can re- point the Tomcat WAS to a different JDK but i am not aware that you can point BOE to a different one.
    I would recommend you open a OSS Message with the SAP support to check if it is possible and supported.
    Regards
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  • Upgrading Ultra 5 Solaris 2.6 to V280 with Solaris 8 or 9

    Our Ultra 5 still runs Solaris 2.6. What's the easiest way to upgrade this box (hardware and OS), without having to re-install all apps? We're looking at used V280s, but I figure they will not run Solaris 2.6, so an upgrade is needed. Should I first upgrade to 8 or 9 on the Ultra 5, and then move the dump files (or disks?) on to the the V280? This sounds like it's not going to work. Otherwise, what's a smooth hardware transition for an Ultra 5, for us to get newer harware and OS?
    Budget is limited. I can't try out many scenarios.

    Solaris is backward compatable, perhaps you should try to migrate on a test platform first, shouldn't be too difficult to get another SPARC system. I use 220R for this, cheap on parts, very reliable and has a broad range of supported OS releases, limited only in performance compared with newer systems.
    http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/E220R/E220R.html
    I agree with you on the hardware upgrade, Ultra 5 is a platform with many limitations. I am not 100% with Informix, my experience with it is on the HU-UX platform, however IBM released version 10 in 2005.
    http://safari.oreilly.com/0130122475
    One thing is sure though, if you approach IBM regarding the upgrade, you may be looking a new/upgrade licenses, this may be the reason the managment have not taken that option.
    Another suggestion would be to consider another server that supports Solaris 2.6 instead of the 280R, this would make life much easier, Sun Enterprise 420R may suit, at least you will find a fully loaded system to perform much better than the Ultra 5 ( supports up to 4 CPUs and 4GB RAM ).
    http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/E420R/E420R.html
    For more expansion ( CPUs and Memory ), but more complicated there is a E4500 as well:
    http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/E4500/E4500.html
    Moving to a new platform is not going to be cheap either way, but software migration will be the more expensive route.
    Sun offer both of the above mentioned systems with full as new warranty in the remanufactured program:
    http://www.sun.com/remanufactured/

  • Ultra 45 & Solaris 8, yes or no?

    Hi,
    considering purchasing a few new workstations and in particular Ultra 45's. Currently have a Solaris 8 environment and need to know whether I can run Solaris 8 on these boxes or not.
    Everywhere I've looked so far only mentions Solaris 10 1/06 which comes preinstalled, but I can I reinstall to Solaris 8?
    Thanks in advance.
    Mark

    Yes I agree with Rukbat, the earlier versions of Solaris don't have kernel support for PCI-E and PCI-X. Solaris is backward compatable, but then again you may have licensing issues. Contact Sun and request information about future Solaris 8/9 kernel revisions that may support this hardware.

  • Solaris 8 4/01 Installation rebooting

    I am trying to install the 4/01 copy of Solaris for the intel and it keeps rebooting the system in the middle of the install. It gets past the point where it is scanning the system and then proceeds to load the kernel. It then reports an error and reboots. I am trying to see the error but it happens fast.
    Kevin
    [email protected]

    Hi Seron,
    Check your system hardware with Solaris 8 hardware compatibility list from this URL:
    http://soldc.sun.com/support/drivers/hcl/
    Thanks,
    Senthilkumar
    Technical Support Engineer
    Developer Technical Support
    Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    http://www.sun.com/developers/support

  • Need help trying to determine what hardware I can run for develpoment testing purposes for Solaris Sparc 11.2

    I have a large client that is looking to upgrade from Solaris 5.9 up to Solaris 11.2. I need to find some hardware I can run in house to do development, run tests and run setups/configuration on a 64 bit Sparc machine. I know Solaris 11 dropped support for some of the UltraSPARC II, III, IV series. However I need to have a setup in shop locally for me to work on. Any ideas on if buy a sun blade workstation or another workstation that I could get Solaris 11.2 installed? I don't necessarily need the GUI desktop but the text/curses based setup is all I need. Any ideas on where to go? Seems like the cutoff from Solaris 10 to 11 was a pretty big one regarding legacy support of older hardware. Also I know there are x86 distributions of Solaris 11.2 but I have 3rd party software that is compiled on Sparc.

    Have you seen the HCL?
    I write  most of my labs on Virtual Box, and also use a few older 5440s and some new M10s when I want to shoe LDOMs.
    OTN - Oracle Solaris 11: Hardware Compatibility List

  • Sparc  vs X86 Compatibility

    I installed Solaris 10 to an x86 machine
    I am trying to run some Solaris binaries (probably Solaris Sparc)
    it gives an error
    "invalid argument"
    question is:
    Does not Solaris have binary compatibility? Can't a Sparc binary run on an X86?
    I am totally confused

    What? I thought the whole point of Solaris x86 is that it can run Solaris binaries. So Solaris x86 is not Solaris?
    Is it true that any binary compiled under Solaris on a sparc machine will not run under Solaris x86?
    If true, I completely fail to see the real utility of Solaris x86, at least for my applications, which were all compiled on sparc machines.

  • Hardware compatability list

    I was looking at an x86 Solaris 8 Hardware Compatability list yesterday... Didn't book mark it... Now I cant find it anywhere Argh... Anybody have a url:// to it....
    Thanks in advance

    http://soldc.sun.com/support/
    This is the top level page - drill down to get to S8 HCL.

  • "error: bad port 0xffff len 0x8"

    Dear sir,
    I need your help as soon as possoible. Actyually I have a system with Win98 and Win 2000 installed on them. I want to install Solaris also so that I can try it and see its performance. The problem appears here. when i start to boot from the CD-ROM an during Solaris is Scanning Devices this message appears:
              "error: bad port 0xffff len 0x8
              The root filesystem is not mounted and the configuration
              assistant has exite prematureky. ...."
    Can you tell me what should i do!
    waiting you reply as soon as possible!
    yours,
    Al-Shayeb
    [email protected]

    Hi,
    Check your system configuration with Solaris x86 hardware compatibility list.
    Refer this URL:
    http://soldc.sun.com/support
    Revert back.
    Thanks,
    Senthilkumar
    SUN - DTS

  • Sol 8: Unable to mount boot

    Hi ..i am trying to install Sol 8 on a PIII machine, but
    Solaris 8 (x86) install dies after these lines:
         Copying mini-root to local disk....done.
         Copying platform specific files....done.
         Preparing to reboot and continue installation.
         Unable to mount /dev/dsk/c0tod0po:boot     
         Solaris Web Start 3.0 installer
         and it drops to shell.
    What did i do wrong? Thanks for ur help!!!!!

    Hi,
    Check your system configuration with Solaris 8 hardware compatibility list.
    Refer this URL: http://soldc.sun.com/support
    Revert back.
    Thanks,
    Senthilkumar
    SUN - DTS

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