On 13/11/2007, Paul Jakma <paul at clubi.ie> wrote: > On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > > Paul Jakma wrote: > >> The smallest, useful source subset of OpenSolaris available today > >> would be OS/Net, no? > > > > No, since OS/Net is not self contained. You'll need at least libm > > from the DevPro consolidation, and several libraries like libxml2 from > > SFW for ON to even work itself. > > This is the self-hosting requirement presumably? > > That's perhaps not a useful requirement to impose from day-1 - > there's no self-contained subset of OpenSolaris, right? Given you > need SUNWspro bits to build ON. The opensolaris-intersection > reference need not be self-hosting build wise.
Actually, I'm fairly certain that ON fully builds with gcc at this point. I know that's what the PowerPC folks have been using... -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall
