On 11/29/15 11:52 AM, Мартин Бохниг wrote:
gcc was also supported by gate after gate, then almost all gates.
Oracle broke with that design for no reason
[Before reading the following, please remember the always present disclaimer
that I am not an Oracle spokesman and cannot speak for Oracle, so if anyone
quotes this as "Oracle says..." you are lying and jeopardizing my ability to
continue being here.]
An obvious reason was that the time & effort could be better spent elsewhere
once Oracle was no longer following Sun's goals of making a complete open
source OS that could be built with free tools such as gcc & ported to platforms
that Studio didn't support.
Similarly, the commit I pointed to, in which the Oracle builds of Firefox switch
from applying a ton of patches just to get Studio to build to a smaller number
of patches & using gcc instead is also about choosing how to prioritize effort,
and deciding that for Firefox, the benefits of building with Studio were not
worth the substantial costs (including slower & more painful updates to new
upstream releases to rebase all those patches to the new upstream code).
That publishing a recipe to build Firefox for Solaris with gcc is also helpful
to OI is just a happy bonus side effect for OI.
BTW, did you see my request for help with gfxp_alloc_kernel_space() ?
I really only need to find out, if my local implementation is wrong (causing the
TRAP on S11.0 and Illumos, while working fine on 11.1, 11.2 and 11.3), or if
there is any other reason.
I did, but I have no idea. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if any of the small
handful of people in the world who know about gfx_private are on this mailing
list or if they were checking their email over the 4-day holiday weekend we
just had in the US (Thursday was a public holiday for Thanksgiving, Friday
was a bonus day off at Oracle and many other non-retail companies).
-alan-
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