[indiana-discuss] [osol-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

[Joerg Schilling]

Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM> wrote:

> > Alan, you are missunderstanding Solaris.
> > 
> > The basic OS (ON) should not depend on GPLd software. This is the same approach
> > as the *BSD people use.
>
> So the basic OS should also not have a libm math library?   ON is not a whole
> OS and never has been.    ON by itself is not a useful system.

Alan you again missunderstand things. libm logically belongs to ON, it is in 
the compiler consolidation for adminstrative reasons only.



Jörg

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