>And how is this a problem? I presume that libCstd and libCrun are available >for >OpenSolaris (at least, I assume so, since Sun has made their Studio compilers . >available). The big advantage of lbCstd is backwards compatibility.
Solaris contains these libraries, but OpenSolaris does not as such, you would have to obtain the C++ libs from a Solaris box or the Compiler. However I believe you do not have re-distribution rights with those libs. You can't ship them on a Shillix distro for example. I could be wrong here but I have not seen anything clearly stating i can distribute these libraries freely. The advantage is not just backwards compatibility, but compatibility with Solaris. Without the complete Solaris runtime available on an OpenSolaris distro some applications will not run. For example 3rd party applications that I have bought may require the libCstd and libCrun libraries, I certainly cannot recompile for STLport. It would be nice if OpenSolaris distros can (freely without sticky re-distribution clauses) do everything Solaris can plus whatever I want ontop :) This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
