mknod: not owner building stunnel on Solaris SPARC 10 zone - stunnel-users

7 Mar 2012


      Hello,I've been building stunnel 4.52 on Solaris 10 SPARC zone.
Configure and make went fine, make install failed in tools
with error 
if uname | grep SunOS; then \
        ../auto/install-sh -c -d -m
755 /tmp/stunnel/var/lib/stunnel/dev; \
        mknod /tmp/stunnel/var/lib/stunnel/dev/zero c 13 12; \
        chmod 666 /tmp/stunnel/var/lib/stunnel/dev/zero; \
fi
SunOS
mknod: Not owner
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mknod is not allowed in solaris zone, only in global.
One of many notices of this error skayser's
http://www.mail-archive.com/devel@lists.opencsw.org/msg03031.html
asks if mknod is needed on solaris 10. So I tried after configure
comment out the mknod section in tools/Makefile.
--
install-data-local:
...
...
        if uname | grep SunOS; then \
                ${INSTALL} -d -m 755
$(DESTDIR)$(localstatedir)/lib/stunnel/dev; \
                mknod $(DESTDIR)$(localstatedir)/lib/stunnel/dev/zero c
13 12; \
                chmod 666
$(DESTDIR)$(localstatedir)/lib/stunnel/dev/zero; \
        fi
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Now make install ends OK and stunnel works fine (I use it as client
only).
Isn't creating ./dev/zero not needed anymore?
Thanks Jiri Rohlicek
jrohlicek@aplis.cz