[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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?
I definitely vote yes; however, the SFW C-Team is the primary arbiter of
the Solaris Companion CD. On the other hand, to the extent that the
future OpenSolaris CCD developer community builds packages with Studio,
no doubt the C-Team will be influenced by that.
Eric
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
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