[desktop-discuss] SFE binary packages for OpenSolaris

[Petr Sobotka]

2007/12/14, Brian Cameron <Brian.Cameron at sun.com>:
>
> Roman:
>
> >> However, I think I'm trying to encourage
> >> that such maintainers should really consider
> >> being involved with the module community directly.
> >
> > Yes. As a consequence this is true.
> >
> > But I even do not know yet which projects are considered
> > to build Solaris spec files from. It is also not clear yet
> > for which toolchain the spec files are built for. Should
> > we make it work for the gcc or the SunPro tool chain? And
> > what is with 64 bit support?

Here is nice info, how 64-bit support is doable in spec files:
http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/jds/spec-files/trunk/docs/multi-ISA.txt

>  From Sun's perspective Sun Studio is the better choice.  It
> tends to build better and faster code for Solaris and
> OpenSolaris.  It typically isn't much work to make modules
> work with Sun Studio.  The typical problem is that many
> modules define GCC specific compiler flags (such as "-Wall")
> in the configure.  However, it's pretty easy to fix these
> configure scripts to only do so if GCC is being used, which
> is more appropriate.

Until you face C++ program which use 2% which are missing in sun studio STL
library ...

Petr