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Notes for Solaris users
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1. To build the package you will need GNU make (gmake, /opt/sfw/gmake), 
native Solaris make will not work.

2. Due to two bugs in solaris 8 x86,  you cannot reliably play DVDs using a
   capacity >4GB: 

   - The sd(7D) driver on solaris 8 x86 driver has bug when accessing a
     disk block >4GB on a device using a logical blocksize != DEV_BSIZE
     (i.e. CDROM and DVD media).  Due to a 32bit int overflow, a disk
     address modulo 4GB is accessed.
     (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22516)

   - The similar bug is present in the hsfs(7FS) filesystem code (aka ISO9660),
     hsfs currently does not support partitions/disks >4GB,  all data is
     accessed modulo 4GB
     (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22592)

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Jürgen Keil