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
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