>It's one of those historical things. For almost all of the Companion >CD's lifetime (going on 6 years now) the Sun Studio compilers were not >freely available. So in the interest of transparency, Companion CD >packages (as much as possible) were built with gcc. The philosophy being >that end-users should be able to take the source package and do a >re-compile (with the aid of the maintainer's README notes) w/out having >to buy a compiler.
So can we change this now to Studio? One thing is C++ ABIs (and the complete lack of stability at the g++ side of the fence) but also the problem with gcc compiled shared libraries in general: they often do not work easily when you don't use gcc ( symbol __eprintf: referenced symbol not found ). But code compiled with gcc intermingles with Sun Studio compiled libraries just fine. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
