Right. And in addition to autotools, such port complicates further ON merges which will unavoidably lead to higher rate of errors/bugs.
But because GNU/kFreeBSD exists, I do not see why GNU/kOpenSolaris can't be... On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 09:27 -0400, Michael Casadevall wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Debian's main issue is that parts of Sun's libc are not open (mostly > libc_i18n; they require all bits to be open). Having seen the issues > kFreeBSD has had with using glibc with their kernel, I'm not sure if > its work having a ksolaris port since configure will no longer > identify the platform as Solaris, so most autotools scripts will > break. > Michael > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: http://getfiregpg.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkjTqNQACgkQpblTBJ2i2pteBACdET5A0ycn3U+G3S2R+8mCN6vq > 0oAAniom7MRTL3P4TR8H1PotiT+R+qSi > =8cf5 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Joerg Schilling > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Erast Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Yes, such port makes sense and solves some of the issues (mostly GNU > >> libc portability) but unfortunately creates new issues, which I'm sure, > >> could be worked out and soon we should have more or less working first > >> ISO available with support for this new exciting architecture! > > > > What do you expect from this "port"? > > > > In glibc, features expected on Solaris are missing. I would expect that this > > port would rather create portabilitly problems than solving any issue. > > > > > >> > makes sense to use glibc. This would also solve the legal problem that > >> > Debian had with linking Sun's libc with dpkg [1]. glibc is licensed > >> > under LGPL with a linking exception, so linking CDDL code against the > >> > glibc is also legal. In keeping with past glibc ports (e.g. kFreeBSD, > > > > Debian is a license troll. > > > > There are two ways to deal with this kind of trolling: > > > > 1) Ignore it comppletely > > > > 2) find evidence that the claims from Debian are nonsense. > > > > Taking actions on the Debian trolling is definitely the wrong way. > > > > BTW: Sun lawyers knows that there is no problem with linking GPLd > > applications > > against CDDL libraries. The GPL does not forbid it (in fact the GPL does not > > say anything about it as this is something that happens "outside" the GPL > > "work"). > > > > Sun would not ship GNOME and /usr/gnu/* if Sun would not be _very_ certain > > that > > Debian is trolling. Sun is happily waiting for being sued by a copyright > > holder > > of a GPLd program shipped with OpenSolaris. _this_ is one way of > > implementing > > (2) above. > > > > Jörg > > > > -- > > EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ > > URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily > > _______________________________________________ > > gnusol-devel mailing list > > gnusol-devel@lists.sonic.net > > http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/gnusol-devel > > > _______________________________________________ gnusol-devel mailing list gnusol-devel@lists.sonic.net http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/gnusol-devel
