On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 08:28 -0700, Kelly O'Hair wrote: > I'm not sure what the state of the Makefiles are for building with gcc > on Solaris. It has been done in the past, from the artifacts I see in the > Makefiles, however, it won't 'just build', it will take some changes. > > In general we focus on one compiler set per OS, the one that has > the most potential for performance and makes the most sense for that OS. > Takes a great deal of testing and performance tests to 'validate' that > even a particular release of a compiler isn't regressing us. > > We will be going through that validation process as we change our > default JDK7 compilers to SS12 on Solaris, gcc4 on Linux, and > VS2008 on Windows.
I see. Maybe I can give it try someday. - twisti
