This poses an interesting question then. With this, we could, in theory dump the ON userland, and go pure GNU, more inline with the other Debian/Ubuntu ports. That being said, I still feel diversity is a strength, and is it still Solaris if we dump the userland (and with it, binary and script compability?) Michael
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 3:07 PM, David Bartley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Michael Casadevall > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The kFreeBSD port has had a lot of considerable issues with porting >> software. Remember, we'd need to port the ON tools such as the ZFS >> admin tools to glibc. > > I already have zfs and zpool binaries linked and working against glibc > (see [0]). Most of the OpenSolaris-specific extensions are trivial > wrappers around syscalls, so I've simply reimplemented them in my > port. > > -- David > > [0] http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~dtbartle/opensolaris/on-glibc.tar.gz > _______________________________________________ gnusol-devel mailing list gnusol-devel@lists.sonic.net http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/gnusol-devel
