Greetings,

I'm sure this has been discussed before, but I was unfortunately not able to
dredge up this information. What are the plans with OSOL in terms of gcc/sun
studio? Is the plan to eventually have OSOL built around gcc, and integrate
the additional optimizations sun studio is capable of into gcc (mainline?)
Probably some licensing/intellectual properties involved here, just curious
what the game plan is.

What prompts this question - I have a heck of a time compiling a lot of
software on OSOL. Not that this is a fault of OSOL (90% of the time it's
braindead autoconf scripts, and things of the like - written for
gnu-specific toolchains - for example the linker.) I'm just curious if the
eventual plan is to switch to the gnu toolchain for the base distribution,
or if there will always be a seperation, with some solaris development
toolchain tools, and some gnu.

Also, this post piqued my interest:
http://forums.opensolaris.com/thread.jspa?threadID=492&tstart=0

One last thing, what's the status of gcc in opensolaris? This is quite an
older version, although I don't necessarily need any of the newer
functionality/fixes, they'd be nice. :) I attempted a build, but it was (as
usual) a lot of fist fighting, and I didn't have to time to deal with it.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.4.3 (csl-sol210-3_4-20050802)
Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

Thank you for all of your input, even if you're just pointing me in the
right direction or telling me where to look, it would be very much
appreciated!

Keep up the great work, I look forward to the future. :)

Cheers,
David Orman
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