On 31/10/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I for one encourage people playing about with this sort of thing - if we > > don't experiment around with new stuff, then OpenSolaris is going to > > stagnate, and then nobody will use it. > > The problem comes if you're compiling applications from source, > ./configure detects the system as Solaris and assumes its userland, then > the compilation breaks left and right because the tools don't behave as > expected. > > Also, I think this should be an option in the installer. Yeah, I can > fiddle around and change the path post-install, but why not offer the > choice from the get go, which would be in the installer?
Those are broken configure scripts. No different than the majority of ones I run into that assume the userland is GNU. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
