>>>>> "Glenn" == Glenn Fowler <gsf at research.att.com> writes:
Glenn> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:32:08 -1000 (HST) Joseph Kowalski wrote: >> Marginal because we are only effecting source portability at a >> Makefile level. Yawn. Glenn> with sun glasses on source portability may be boring In general I agree with Glenn. If we (Sun) want to encourage the modernization of Solaris through incorporation of third-party code, then we need to be sensitive to the portability concerns that those third parties have. Also, if we do want Solaris-specific changes, I think we'll be more likely to reach a mutually acceptable approach if our rationale is more concrete than "such-and-such approach is ugly". Several messages in the earlier discussion about libcmd (prior to filing the ARC case) were more or less of the form "my approach is cleaner than yours"; they didn't really get us anywhere. Instead, I think it would be helpful to say "approach X leads to problem Y". That said, Roland has already written new makefiles for use in the ON code base. So maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see how makefile source compatibility would be a concern here. mike
