nixCraft

Hello,

I'm new to Solaris. I have here a Sun Blade 150, SUNOS Release 5.8.
I am searching the net for days on how to install IOzone in Solaris but not able to find one.
There are also no instruction in the IOzone web site on how to install it in Solaris. What's available in the site is the tar file and rpm file.
May anyone please help me or just point me to any links i'll just read it.

Thanks,
warren

Warren,

You need to download source code and compile it on Solaris. On solaris it support both Gcc and Sun C compiler.

Download http://www.iozone.org/src/current/iozone3_260.tar file

Untar using tar command:
Then goto iozone3_260/src/current directory and type make command:
It will display the supported operating system, for example to compile on Solaris 10 with GCC compiler I need to type command:
OR just type Solaris for 32 bit version
Detailed installation information is provided ms-word doc file called iozone3_260/docs/IOzone_msword_98.doc there is also a pdf file in iozone3_260/docs directory.

ok, thanks for the reply.

After I typed the command "make", i've got an error message.
bash: make: command not found

# find / -name \*make -print
/usr/share/lib/make
/usr/lib/spell/hashmake
/usr/lib/svr4.make
/usr/lib/lu/lumake
/usr/openwin/bin/imake
/usr/ccs/bin/make
/usr/ccs/lib/svr4.make
/usr/sbin/lumake
/usr/xpg4/bin/make

Have I installed make? or maybe the $PATH is broken, how can I set it in my environment variables?

Thanks,
warren

I hope you have compiler installed; following command will give full path of C compiler:
which cc
which gcc

make command
You can setup PATH or you can type full path:
/usr/ccs/bin/make
OR
/usr/xpg4/bin/make

If you are using bash or sh shell then setup path using following command:
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/css/bin:/usr/xpg4/bin
Display new path:
echo $PATH

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ok, thank you so much. I've got it.

I have modified the $PATH or by just typing the full path of the make command.

output of:
bash-2.03# which cc
/usr/ucb/cc
bash-2.03# which gcc
no gcc in /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/dt/bin /usr/openwin/bin /bin /usr/ucb /usr/ccs/bin /usr/xpg4/bin

One more question. I'm not sure if my Solaris is 32bit or 64bit.
This box is Sun Blade 150.
but during boot up, there a message:
SUNOS Release 5.8 Version Generic_108528-29 64 bit

The hardware is 32 bit, right? but why is it that there is a 64 bit message?

Thanks,
warren

Sun Blade 150 is 64-bit workstation, so uname is reporting it as a 64 bit version

Hmm...

64 bit os on 32 bit hardware, not possible dude. It is a 64 bit hadware see spec at http://www.sun.com/desktop/workstation/sunblade150/

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What's wrong? I hope I am not making you uncomfortable...

Never send a boy to do a mans job.

There is no compiler installed....
#make Solaris8-64
..........
/usr/ucb/cc: language optional software package not installed

I installed gcc and then modify the PATH. Verify, make a helloworld.c and then compile using "gcc helloworld.c -o helloworld"
ok....no problem
Run again:
#make Solaris8-64
the same error.
the script is set to use cc

what the.....

-> Solaris (32bit) <-
-> Solaris-2.6 (32bit) <-
-> Solaris7gcc (32bit) <-
-> Solaris8-64 (64bit) <-
-> Solaris8-64-VXFS (64bit) <-
-> Solaris10gcc (32bit) <-

Try
OR
Else create softlink to gcc as cc command using ln -s command.

# make Solaris10gcc
ok, no error. I can run ./iozone
but "Solaris10gcc" option is for 32 bit and Solaris 10. My machine is Solaris 8 and 64 bit, maybe this will result to an incorrect benchmark.

I created a softlink to gcc as cc.
# make Solaris8-64
Building iozone for Solaris8-64

cc -fast -xtarget=generic64 -v -c -Dunix -DHAVE_ANSIC_C -DASYNC_IO \
-D__LP64__ -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 \
-DNAME='"Solaris8-64"' -Dsolaris -DHAVE_PREAD \
iozone.c -o iozone_solaris8-64.o
Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/2.95.2/specs
gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)
cc: language target=generic64 not recognized
cc: iozone.c: linker input file unused since linking not done
cc -fast -xtarget=generic64 -v -c -Dunix -DHAVE_ANSIC_C -DASYNC_IO \
-D__LP64__ -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 \
-Dsolaris -DHAVE_PREAD libasync.c -o libasync.o
Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/2.95.2/specs
gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)
cc: language target=generic64 not recognized
cc: libasync.c: linker input file unused since linking not done
cc -fast -xtarget=generic64 -v -c -Dunix -DHAVE_ANSIC_C -DASYNC_IO \
-D__LP64__ -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 \
-Dsolaris -DHAVE_PREAD libbif.c -o libbif.o
Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/2.95.2/specs
gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)
cc: language target=generic64 not recognized
cc: libbif.c: linker input file unused since linking not done
cc -c libasync.c
libasync.c:101: sys/timers.h: No such file or directory
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `libasync.o'

I am now downloading Sun Studio 11, I hope I can successfully installed this without errors, again