>Hey, > >> This is exactly what i had in mind -- i had promised Jim Grisanzio >> that i would write up some of my thoughts on this and ran out of time >> yesterday evening -- and the issue of common dependencies with GNOME >> -- and actually with GNU/OpenSolaris -- is a major part of it. i >> would really like to share these and have just one set of dependencies >> for both KDE and GNOME. so i was hoping we could work together and >> decide on a common directory where these will live. > >So the obvious questions that come to mind that we probably need to >discuss are - > > o Why aren't these tools already available on Solaris?
The GNU binutils are already in Solaris. But since Sun's ld generates more efficient executables and because Sun's as is more uptodate wrt certain instructions on SPARC, they're gas/gld. > o Why can't we use the non-GNU equivalent? And if not, > why can't we fix those tools? Interesting question; this might be something as simple as that they don't take --gnu-specific-option. > o What's the roadmap/development for this and how can > we effectively coordinate when KDE/GNOME/Others require > a different version set? So why are gld/gas useless when they's shipped under those names? Why is /usr/sfw/bin/gcc useless if it doesn't use gas/gld? (I've had too much issues with gas/gld to ever want to use them) Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
