>> My biggest complaint against KDE these days is that it requires far >> too many source patches to build on Solaris, and those patches have >> not been rolled into the baseline. Once upon a time, I actually was >> able to compile my own KDE from source successfully. >> > > you'll find that this is only the case when you compile with the SUN > compiler, it builds fine with GCC if i'm not mistaken.
Even so, most of the patches that would be needed to make the Sun compiler happy tend to be things that would not break GCC. Usually, gcc is way too lax on what it lets you get away with, while other compilers are more strict. GCC 3.x has helped to change this a lot, but even still it isn't perfect. (I've also run into some weird linker issues, and usually wound up working around those by hand.) I guess I just like using the compiler that generates the fastest code for the platform I'm using. I only wish the C++ ABI was standardized enough that it didn't matter which compiler to built a library with. (but that's obviously not the case) -Derek _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
