Sun Studio 12 Update 1 Patches

Operating system patches are provided with Sun Studio 12 Update 1 software. These patches are required for the proper operation of the compilers and tools in this release. The Sun Studio 12 Update 1 Installation Guide lists the Solaris Operating System (OS) patches included with this release.

You can install the operating system patches using the install_patches.sh utility that is included when you download the Sun Studio 12 Update 1 package installer. For detailed information, please refer to Installing the Required Solaris OS Patches and Appendix D in the Sun Studio 12 Update 1 Installation Guide. And remember, you can always get the latest revision of the patch from SunSolve.

Additional operating system patches and product patches are recommended to resolve specific issues that might or might not affect your use of the Sun Studio 12 Update 1 software. These patches are not included in the download. To install these patches, download them from SunSolve and follow the instructions in the README file included with the patch, which contains important information on risks and proper procedure.

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Product patches on SunSolve recommended for Sun Studio 12 Update 1

Solaris OS on SPARC	Patch	Description
Sun Studio 12 Update 1 Compilers and Tools	128228	C++ Compiler
	142371	dbx
	142369	Performance Analyzer Tools
	141860	Compiler Common patch
	128231	Fortran 95 8.4 Compiler
	141854	Fortran 95 8.4 Support Library
	128232	Fortran 95 8.4 Dynamic Libraries
	141861	C Compiler

Solaris OS on x86/x64	Patch	Description
Sun Studio 12 Update 1 Compilers and Tools	128229	C++ Compiler
	142368	Performance Analyzer Tools
	141858	Compiler Common patch
	141852	Fortran 95 8.4 Compiler
	141855	Fortran 95 8.4 Support Library
	141853	Fortran 95 8.4 Dynamic Libraries
	142363	C Compiler

Linux OS on x86/x64	Patch	Description
Sun Studio 12 Update 1 Compilers and Tools	128230	RHEL5 and SLES10 C++ Compiler
	142372	RHEL5 and SLES10 rtlibs
	141859	RHEL5 and SLES10 Linux backend
	142367	RHEL5 and SLES10 Performance Analyzer Tools
	142366	RHEL5 and SLES10 C Compiler
	141856	RHEL5 and SLES10 Fortran 95 8.4 Compiler
	141857	RHEL5 and SLES10 Fortran 95 8.4 Dynamic Libraries

OS patches on SunSolve required for Sun Studio 12 Update 1

Solaris OS on SPARC-based systems	Patch	Description
Solaris 10 1/06 and later	118683	SunOS 5.10: Patch for profiling libraries and assembler
	120753	SunOS 5.10: Microtasking libraries (libmtsk) patch utilities
	119963	SunOS 5.10: Shared library patch for C++

Solaris OS on x86-based systems based systems	Patch	Description
Solaris 10 1/06 and later	119961	SunOS 5.10_x86, x64, Patch for profiling libraries and assembler
	120754	SunOS 5.10_x86: Microtasking libraries (libmtsk) patch
	119964	SunOS 5.10_x86: Shared library patch for C++_x86

OS patches on SunSolve recommended for Sun Studio 12 Update 1

Solaris OS on SPARC-based systems	Patch	Description	Reason to Install
Solaris 10 releases earlier than Solaris 10 08/07	127127	SunOS 5.10: kernel patch	Required in order for compiler annotations (`-xannotate=yes`) to work

Solaris OS on x86-based systems	Patch	Description	Reason to Install
Solaris 10 releases earlier than Solaris 10 08/07	127128	SunOS 5.10_x86: kernel patch	Required in order for compiler annotations (`-xannotate=yes`) to work
Solaris 10 releases earlier than Solaris 10 10/08	137138	SunOS 5.10_x86: kernel patch	Required on systems on which patch 127112 or 127128 has been installed in order to use the dbx debugger to debug applications that use signal handling.