Sunstudio startup script not working

Question

The environment is Ubuntu Linux 5.04 with Java 1.5.0_01 installed.
The awk script that checks the Java Version has some problems on this distribution.
Enabled set -x in the sunstudio shell script, here are the relevant lines:
+++ '[' -x /shares/free/opt/jdk1.5.0_01/bin/java ']'
+++ /shares/free/opt/jdk1.5.0_01/bin/java -version
+++ /usr/bin/awk -f /opt/sun/sunstudio10u1/prod/scripts/ver.awk
awk: run time error: regular expression compile failed (missing operand)
"| |(|)|,|
        FILENAME="" FNR=0 NR=0
++ ver=
+++ /opt/sun/sunstudio10u1/prod/scripts/jdk_compare 1.3.9 ''
++ gettext -e 'Warning: Ignoring JDK_HOME. Sun Studio does not run with this\nversion of the J2SE.\n'
+++ '[' -x /shares/free/opt/jdk1.5.0_01/bin/java ']'
+++ /usr/bin/awk -f /opt/sun/sunstudio10u1/prod/scripts/ver.awk
+++ /shares/free/opt/jdk1.5.0_01/bin/java -version
awk: run time error: regular expression compile failed (missing operand)
"| |(|)|,|
        FILENAME="" FNR=0 NR=0
++ ver=
+++ /opt/sun/sunstudio10u1/prod/scripts/jdk_compare 1.3.9 ''
++ for d in '"${JDKLIST[@]}"'
++ '[' -x /usr/j2se/bin/java -a -x /usr/j2se/bin/javac ']'The rest of the utilities seem to work correctly, netbeans starts up correctly.

Answer 1

The awk script was written and tested on various
platforms, both
Linux and Solaris. I'm not familiar with Ubuntu Linux
and thats not
one of the platforms we tested on.=====
www.ubuntulinux.org
Could you do several things for me?
First, could you do some sanity testing on
/usr/bin/awk. Just
enough to make sure its working in other uses. If it
does, can
you see if its a symlink to gawk? If so, what version
of gawk
(you can do "awk --version" if it is). On the Linux
platform I have
(SuSE Linux Enterprise System 9), I get "GNU Awk
3.1.3". If you
can send me the exact version of awk, I might be able
to come
up with an alternative.=====
The installed awk was a symlink to mawk.
I installed also the GNU awk and that fixed it.
You might also be able to fix this. Do you have write
permissions
on your sunstudio install? If you look at the ver.awk
script it has
a comment giving an alternate value of the FS which
is easier
to read, but doesn't work on Solaris (where
/usr/bin/awk isn't
GNU awk). Since we have to work with both GNU and
Solaris
awk, I didn't use this alternate. But if that works
on your system
its a simple way of getting you going.
Of course, you're still not on a supported Linux
platform, so there
are still no guarantees you won't run into other
problems. These
would most likely be in some of the native
executables the IDE
uses (such as dbx and dmake). The core parts of the
IDE (all
Java parts), should work fine on most any Linux
platform.=====
Encountered the problem with dbx dependency to libc:
$ dbx
dbx: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3.4' not found (required by dbx)
$ ldd -v /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)
Version information:
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6:
ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_2.3) => /lib/ld-linux.so.2
ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_2.1) => /lib/ld-linux.so.2
ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_2.0) => /lib/ld-linux.so.2
ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_PRIVATE) => /lib/ld-linux.so.2
$ ldd /opt/sun/sunstudio10u1/bin/dbx
/opt/sun/sunstudio10u1/bin/dbx: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3.4' not found (required by /opt/sun/sunstudio10u1/bin/dbx)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb7fce000)
libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0xb7f14000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7ef3000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7ee7000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7dba000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7feb000)
Was there a reason why this version of GNU libc was chosen as minimal requirementl!?