David,

Thanks again for the clarification.

>>> 2) Why isn't COMPIZ built with Studio? :)
>>
>> Sun Studio is not open AFAIK; thus not redistributable. Building Compiz
>> with Studio would render Compiz as non-redistributable, thus buggering
>> OpenSolaris the distro, which is redistributable. ICBWT.
>
> Although various versions of Sun Studio are not redistributable, that
> has no bearing on the binaries built by it.  In fact, most of the
> binaries built for 2008.05 are built with Sun Studio 11 (plus patches)
> which is a not-redistributable but free to use compiler.

Fair; but is there not an obscure case where someone builds a binary for 
redistribution that includes an "encumbered" archive library that is 
part of Studio? Or are all the archive libraries in Sun Studio not 
encumbered. If this is too obscure, then please ignore.

> The new Sun Studio Express which is in the pkg.opensolaris.org
> repository *is* redistributable. 

Brilliant! Many thanks for that - I was wondering what SunStudioExpress 
was. For those who would like to build opensolaris (the codebase) on 
OpenSolaris (the distro), does it equate to Studio 11 or Studio 12? Or 
neither? Just for the purposes of environment config for nightly. Apols 
if this has been answered before.

Thanks and regards... Sean.

BTW: is Ceres the internal name for StudioExpress? Just curious... Thanks.

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