>what are concrete differences between gnu ld and sun ld prevent building 
>opensolaris without sun studio tools or even from other operating systems with 
>open tools only ? 


OpenSolaris can be build with gcc or with Studio cc.

(Both are tested).

However, GNU ld does not have all the features needed to
link Solaris as far as I can tell.

>what other bottlenecks can arise ? makefile compatibility ? lint ? kernel post 
>compiling tools? 
>
>i can mistake, but i think project that depend(in building) on proprietary 
>tool can't be called "open". 


Since when are tools available under an OSI approved licensem
proprietary?

Source code which can only compiled with proprietary gcc extensions is
somehow less proprietary?

Casper
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