On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 07:56 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 23:48 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > >> S h i v wrote: > >>> On 8/6/07, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>> It does seem puzzling. > >>>> The reason is that: > >>>> > >>>> - SXDE (and in particular the "developer install" feature) was > >>>> supposed to be aimed at developers who are writing software to run > >>>> _on_ Solaris, and not those who are just compiling OpenSolaris > >>>> itself. The former can make good use of having the freshest > >>>> possible set of tools. > >>>> > >>> If this is the case then GNU build tools must be included in SXDE. A > >>> huge part of open source world use this ! > >> Most of them already are - gcc, gmake, gdb, autoconf, etc. - what are > >> you missing? > > > > All of CBE being merged would be nice. > > The OpenSolaris CBE is effectively merged by SXDE - except that the recent > builds put the wrong version of Sun Studio in (they have Studio 12, where > the current CBE specifies Studio 11). > > If you mean the JDS CBE, the JDS team is already working on that. > You can see some of their work in progress in the SFW mailing lists > (right now they're replacing the current versions of the GNU > autoconf/automake/libtool with the versions they use in the JDS CBE). >
Yeap, the JDS CBE. Cool - it'll make compiling some of the stuff I want alot easier - things like Mono, for example :-) Matthew _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
