[Haskell-cafe] Re: Installing ghc in an OpenSolaris Zone

[Lars Viklund]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 09:14:50AM +0200, Christian Maeder wrote:
> Günther Schmidt schrieb:
> > Have you managed to install it into a zone yourself?
> 
> What do you mean by "zone"? I managed to install this ghc into an other
> location than /usr/local by giving a prefix to configure:

A Solaris zone is a mechanism similar to FreeBSD jails and (somewhat
like) a chroot.

It's a separate virtual world, with its own network interfaces,
filesystem, etc.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_Containers

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