> Karel Gardas wrote:
>> Doesn't `ss-dev' install always Sun Studio Express on OS 2009.06 while
the link http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/downloads/index.jsp
provides real Sun Studio version?
>
> If by "real" Sun Studio you mean the "release" version, then yes, but
you'll get a subpar experience with that version IMO.
>
> There's really no reason I can think of to use that version of Sun
Studio ...
The difference between commercial grade release and support versus beta
grade release.
beta -> Sun Studio Express
commercial grade -> Sun Studio 12 <-- with 7x24 support :-)
With Sun Studio 12 I can buy 7x24 around the clock support for $1,218.00 (
Annual Premium Support is $3.34 a day. A good cup of coffee costs the
same. ) which is the *only* way to go given that I am often working at
3AM. Sun Studio Forums are not support. If support does exist then does
the OpenSolaris release and its compiler(s) compete directly, and
internally, with the commercial grade releases? Those questions are not
nearly as important to me as the ability to call at 3AM and ask "why GNU
make won't pass its own testsuite with Studio 12 but it will with Studio
11?"
So you say "really no reason I can think of to use that version".
Shawn, I just gave you the difference that makes *ALL* the difference.
Support. The real commercial grade production world needs support and
wants to pay for it.
Regarding Studio Express, I can only assume you mean this :
Sun Studio Express - March 2009 Build
http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/downloads/express/index.jsp
Is this the *exact* same thing that is available for OpenSolaris? I
thought that the OpenSolaris/Nevada ON bits were still to be built with
Sun Studio 11? Really, what is the standard? In truth I do not know.
Dennis
ps: yes, the example above is true, on a Sol 10 server Studio 12 will
result in a 64-bit binary for GNU make that fails the testsuite. Studio 11
creates a valid version. I don't know why, I only know that it happens.
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