On 05/12/09 15:15, James Carlson wrote: > Brendan Doyle SMI European Software Centre writes: > >> That's Not a problem for us, we'll be just doing binary release via the >> download website >> to provide support on S10. We'll take the source and do what we need to >> to make it >> work for that (we do this already by having a 'compatibility' library >> that provides missing >> functions). But I'm guessing even Open Solaris REF won't make it in time >> time, so interim >> will be a work around, and then replace when the RFE is available. >> > > A helper library that provides the missing functionality is yet > another useful approach to the problem. > > But it does raise an interesting question: if such a library is viable > and supportable on S10, why is it not also a reasonable answer on > OpenSolaris? Who said that applications on OpenSolaris must be > completely unmodified from Linux? >
It's a fair point, but ideal is that an app that uses the APIs provided by the suite of libraries we are porting, should just compile and run without any mods. Currently on S10 based releases we do require the inclusion of a couple of headers and linking with a "compatibility" library, that provides things like asprintf. We'd like the library to be deprecated as things like asprint are added to sun's libc. Brendan -- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/tools-compilers/attachments/20090512/8faca78b/attachment.html>
