[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It's been rumoured that Alan Orndorff said:
> > The one thing I know about binutils on Solaris systems is that
> > most admins don't like to install it. the ld that comes with binutils
> > does not compile on Solaris 7. Most of the other utils that compose
> > binutils are available natively. Not sure about other systems, but there
> > has been talk on the Solaris Intel Mailing list in the past of old admins
> > advising new admins to not do it. If you can get it as part of another
> > gnu package, that would probably be less of a hassle.
> >
> > I know how that sounds, but its the reality of the situation.
>
> At one point, sun, ibm, & sco issued a press release saying they were all
> going to standardize on glibc (make glibc the default libc on solaris, aix,
> sco) ... I guess this hasn't happened yet? Or is this a dead project?
With IBM and SCO in bed together now, theres some hope that what one
does, the other will do. Sun announces some things and follows thru on some
but not the other. When Intel announced UDI for drivers, Sun announced
support for it as well. Someone supposedly higher up in the Sun food chain
starting posting to the mailing list. I asked her what the status of UDI is a
couple of months ago, and still have yet to get an answer. Watching what
people actually do is more important then what they say.
Alls I can tell you right now, is the problems that I faced compiling gnucash
on Solaris. As to which side of the fence is to blame, doesn't matter to me,
I just wanted to get the damn thing compiled. On the one hand I'll give
Linux praise for what its managed to accomplish. Its turning peoples mind back
to Unix. Its providing Windows like apps for Unix. It still has some things
that I don't like, like the need for a seperate partition just for swap. If
you
weigh the good versus the bad, Linux is a very good thing. I firmly believe
Linux
can take out MS, but I still prefer the maturity of other Unix brands. In
time,
this will probably change.
alan
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