OpenSolaris

• make sure the Mercurial MQ extension is enabled i.e. in /.hgrc

    [extensions]
    hgext.mq=

• Have the following in your env

    export EMAIL={{code}}username@yourdomain.com{{/code}}
    export EDITOR=vi
    export SOLARIS~_BUILD~_TOOLS=/opt

• Install at least the following packages:

    pkg install developer/opensolaris/osnet SUNWbcc SUNWxwinc SUNWgnome-common-devel

• Grab/setup the xvm source

    mkdir xvm-gate
    cd xvm-gate/
    hg clone ssh://anon@hg.opensolaris.org//hg/xen-gate/xvm-gate+sunos.hg sunos.hg
    export XVM~_WS=\{{code}}pwd\{{/code}}
    ./sunos.hg/bin/update-gate

• if building off SWAN, grab the readline source

    curl -o readline-5.2.tar.gz http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/readline/readline-5.2.tar.gz

• build the xvm gate

    export XVM~_WS=\{{code}}pwd\{{/code}}
    ./sunos.hg/bin/build-all full &> build.txt &

• instructions for the development gates can be found HERE