On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 4:32 AM, Martin Bochnig <martin at martux.org> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:18 AM, Nicolas Williams > <Nicolas.Williams at sun.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 01:52:25AM +0300, Martin Bochnig wrote: >>> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:38 AM, Bart Smaalders <bart.smaalders at sun.com> >>> wrote: >>> > No. Each consolidation has different build infrastructure and > And specifically: > >> is multi-platform, have an ON-style build system (ON only builds on >> Solaris)! ?And so on, and on. > > If you would drop Studio and would globally switch to gcc, you would > not only save lots of R&D, but additionally you could relatively > easily support cross-compilation (x86/SPARC, also on LinUX etc ... ). > > But this is another situation again, where Sun spends extra money for > ending up in less flexibility. So actually you pay twice. >
What was missing - as for SCCS make: In 2007 Joerg Schilling invested the effort of porting it to LinUX: http://www.mail-archive.com/opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org/msg16549.html > Note: This is not a rant by any means. Just a bit of wondering and a > few thoughts attempted to express. > > > %martin > _______________________________________________ > xwin-discuss mailing list > xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org >
