... Solaris DevX comes with Emacs, Java, and the compilers pre-installed. This is all you need to edit and build sizeable systems in batch mode.
h3. Your Solaris home directory
You probably want your Unix home directory and Mac home directories to be distinct but closely related. It is probably best to make a folder inside your Mac home folder called {{solaris-devx-home}} and populate it with Solaris-specific environmental files. Folders with content not specific to Solaris should be organized in a Mac-centric way, but linked into your Solaris home directory as necessary. Files which begin with a dot (".") are invisible to the Mac Finder, and should therefore be links to original files which the Finder _can_ see.
Here is an example listing of a working Solaris home directory, as listed from a Mac Terminal window:
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ls -al /Users/joeuser/solaris-devx-home
total 80
drwxr-xr-x 32 joeuser daemon 1088 Sep 29 17:14 .
drwxr-xr-x 46 joeuser joeuser 1564 Sep 29 17:17 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 joeuser daemon 6148 Sep 30 00:25 .DS_Store
-rw------- 1 joeuser daemon 88 Aug 10 01:56 .Xauthority
drwx------ 2 joeuser daemon 68 Aug 18 20:07 .autosave
-rw------- 1 joeuser daemon 7295 Sep 30 00:10 .bash_history
lrwxrwxrwx 1 joeuser daemon 18 Aug 10 00:34 .bash_login -> env/bash_login.txt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 joeuser daemon 14 Aug 10 00:34 .bashrc -> env/bashrc.txt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 joeuser daemon 13 Aug 10 00:34 .dbxrc -> env/dbxrc.txt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 joeuser daemon 13 Aug 10 00:34 .er.rc -> env/er.rc.txt
drwx------ 2 joeuser daemon 68 Aug 22 22:00 .gconf
drwx------ 3 joeuser daemon 102 Aug 22 22:01 .gconfd
-rw------- 1 joeuser daemon 2167 Sep 29 23:58 .logins
-rw-r--r-- 1 joeuser daemon 964 Aug 9 19:29 .profile
-rw-rw-rw- 1 joeuser daemon 127 Aug 22 11:36 .saves-3629-solaris-devx
lrwxrwxrwx 1 joeuser daemon 16 Aug 10 00:34 .screenrc -> env/screenrc.txt
drwxrwxrwx 3 joeuser daemon 102 Aug 10 00:56 .sunstudio
drwx------ 3 joeuser daemon 102 Aug 10 00:58 .sunw
lrwxrwxrwx 1 joeuser daemon 10 Aug 10 00:34 .xemacs -> env/xemacs
drwxrwxrwx 7 joeuser daemon 238 Aug 22 18:32 Builds
drwxr-xr-x 101 joeuser daemon 3434 Apr 27 23:17 Classes
lrwxrwxrwx 1 joeuser daemon 33 Aug 10 00:35 Downloads -> /net/macosx/Users/joeuser/Downloads
lrwxrwxrwx 1 joeuser daemon 40 Sep 19 11:10 Outgoing -> /net/macosx/Users/joeuser/Desktop/Outgoing
lrwxrwxrwx 1 joeuser daemon 32 Aug 10 00:35 Projects -> /net/macosx/Users/joeuser/Projects
drwxr-xr-x 103 joeuser daemon 3502 Sep 29 23:52 bin
drwxr-xr-x 29 joeuser daemon 986 Aug 22 18:32 config
drwxr-xr-x 14 joeuser daemon 476 Jul 19 20:21 devtools
drwxrwxrwx 20 joeuser daemon 680 Aug 29 21:42 env
drwxr-xr-x 3 joeuser daemon 102 Aug 10 00:36 gnu
-rw-r--r-- 1 joeuser daemon 1053 Aug 9 19:29 local.cshrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 joeuser daemon 1002 Aug 9 19:29 local.login
-rw-r--r-- 1 joeuser daemon 1019 Aug 9 19:29 local.profile
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h3. Example: To initialize a Mercurial workspace
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$ cd ~Projects
$ time hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/hotspot-comp/hotspot hotspot-work
destination directory: hotspot-work
requesting all changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 1 changesets with 2894 changes to 2894 files
2894 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
real 0m16.850s
user 0m8.959s
sys 0m3.455s
$ time cp -al hotspot-work hotspot-temp
real 0m9.497s
user 0m0.035s
sys 0m1.898s
$ diff -r hotspot-work hotspot-temp
$ rm -rf hotspot-temp
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Here are [more Mercurial tips|MercurialTips].
h3. Example: To build Hotspot
This assumes you have downloaded the Hotspot sources into a folder called {{Projects/hotspot-work}}. It also assumes you wish to place your build products in a different folder.
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$ cd ~/Builds
$ ws=~/Projects/hotspot-work
$ mkdir $(basename $ws)
$ chdir $(basename $ws)
$ ln -s $ws GAMMADIR
$ gnumake -f GAMMADIR/build/solaris/Makefile jvmg GAMMADIR=$(cd GAMMADIR;pwd -P)
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