[desktop-discuss] SFE binary packages for OpenSolaris

[Shawn Walker]

On Dec 14, 2007 1:37 PM, Petr Sobotka <sobotkap at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 ...

Stefan's work to integrate Apache's stdcxx should solve that problem.

It's a fully compliant ISO C++ STL implementation if I'm not mistaken.

See the recent ARC case on on psarc-ext.

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