On Jan 20, 2008 10:06 AM, Aubrey Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jan 20, 2008 3:46 PM, John Sonnenschein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > There is nothing that an updated indiana can do with respect to the
> > problem of building ON.
> >
> > The first most visible problem is in the Sun Studio tools,
> > specifically the package SUNWsprot which contains as(1). gas doesn't
> > work to build ON, and SUNWsprot's copy of as(1) is non-redistrib. and
> > therefore not in indiana
> >
> That's really bad.
> Will this feature be supported in the coming March release?

I doubt it. Despite Jonathan Schwartz's promises over two years ago
now that "everything Sun does will be open source" -- unknown reasons
prevent the release of Sun Studio, even with the most basic
redistribution rights that we already have for other OpenSolaris
binary components.

For some reason, even though OpenSolaris is "married" to Sun Studio at
this point, Sun still seems to treat them as completely separate.

This doesn't make much sense to me given Studio's direct impact on OpenSolaris.

-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/

"To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." -
Robert Orben
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