Douglas Atique wrote:
1. What is the difference between Solaris 10 and Solaris Express as a build host environment?
Solaris Express uses current "Nevada" sources, a.k.a "OpenSolaris" sources. Solaris 10 does not. Furthermore, this implies that Solaris 10 is not an OpenSolaris-based distribution (the code bases for Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris/Solaris Express are completely separate). Solaris Express is an OpenSolaris-based distribution, that will eventually be released as Solaris 11.
2. What is the difference between Sun Studio 11 for Solaris and Sun Studio 11 for OpenSolaris?
"Sun Studio 11 for OpenSolaris" contains patches necessary to build ON (the name for the OpenSolaris bit that contains the kernel, userland, etc.). "Sun Studio 11 for Solaris" does not contain these patches, and must be applied if one desires to build ON.
3. Is gcc ever used in the compilation of OpenSolaris? What is the "shadow" configuration that points to gcc?
Support for doing OpenSolaris builds with gcc does exist, though, I'm not familiar with the process, so I'll let someone speak up that has more familiarity with it.
You'll most likely find the OpenSolaris/Nevada "Developer's Reference" to be very helpful answering any further questions you may have:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/devref_toc/ Thanks, -- Derek E. Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://riemann.solnetworks.net/~dlewis _______________________________________________ tools-discuss mailing list tools-discuss@opensolaris.org
