Andrew Gabriel <Andrew.Gabriel at sun.com> wrote:

> That seems to me like a bad idea, as they won't be gnu any more.
> If it's felt desirable to have the changes in the gnu toolchain,
> then the team should be persuaded to get them accepted upstream,
> and then update the gnu tools in /usr/gnu/bin when that's been
> done.

In contrary to e.g. star, gtar does not implement a single Linux specific 
feature. I would asume that there is low probability that someone will be able
to convince the authors to add Solaris specific features.

J?rg

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