Installing eJabberd on Solaris 10

1stly, a disclaimer: This is not meant to be a tutorial, even though I've catrgorised this as a "HowTo". It's merely a record of how I managed to get eJabberd running on my Solaris 10 machines (Note - important for later: saying this before I've actually got it working)

What I have:

• 1. Sun T5120


• 2. Solaris 10


• 3. Erlang R12B-5

Other Ingredients:

• 1. eJabberd source


• 2. Missing Gnu Packages

Method:

These are some of the other packages I needed to get:

1. Gnu Install


2. Gnu Make


3. libiconv


4. Expat


5. OpenSSL

Installed them by 1st unpacking:
gunzip coreutils-6.4-sol10-sparc-local.gz
and then:
pkgadd -d coreutils-6.4-sol10-sparc-local
(as su)

Next download ejabberd-2.1.0_rc2.tar.gz

Unpack into a source folder:
gunzip ejabberd-2.1.0_rc2.tar.gz
tar -xvf ejabberd-2.1.0_rc2.tar

Then, in the ejabberd-2.1.0_rc2 folder, go to src directory, after having a quick peak at README

This is the vital bit, set your path to include the following:
export PATH=$PATH/usr/local/bin:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/ucb:/etc:/usr/local/erlang/R12B-5/bin:

At this point, I tried:
./confgure
which worked, followed by a:
make install
which failed horribly.

To fix this, I had to edit the main and nested Makefiles:
ERLANG_CFLAGS= -I/usr/local/erlang/R12B-5/lib/erlang/lib/erl_interface-3.5.9/include -I/usr/local/erlang/R12B-5/lib/erlang/usr/include

Also had to change ejabberd_s2s_in.erl as follows:

-include_lib("ssl/pkix/PKIX1Explicit88.hrl").
-include_lib("ssl/pkix/PKIX1Implicit88.hrl").

Thereafter make install worked.

Next edit /sbin/ejabberdctl and change the 1st line to:
#!/usr/bin/bash
so that it uses the correct shell.

And voila!

Update:

Discovered a problem, which prevented my server from establishing server to server connections, kept getting "ejabberd.im ejabberd remote server not found" .

This article helped solve the bug, which involved commenting out line 275 of ejabberd_s2s_out.erl, before doing a make. All is fine again now.