On Dec 11, 2007 1:52 AM, Alan DuBoff <alan.duboff at sun.com> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Lukas Oboril wrote: > > > Do you (or Stefan) prepare ARC for include stdcxx to > > Opensolaris/Solaris in /usr/lib ??? I agree with include, it could be > > more useful if stdcxx will live in /usr/lib then in other place. > > [removing the cross-post to kde.org] > > Not yet, but that will happen at some point, and one engineer offered to > help submit the cases for us today. That will take some work, and we > shouldn't let that distract us (mostly you at this point <g>) from moving > forward. This will be taken care of, not to worry. > > However, this will not go back to ON, I don't believe. It would be more > fitting in a seperate repository of open source software, IMO. > > Both of us have talked about this with several engineers, and Stefan has > talked with the compiler folks to make sure there wouldn't be any > problems. Nobody can think of a reason that it would cause problems by > having the apache lib in /usr/lib/. Also, nobody can think of a reason > that it would cause a problem with other applications. > > If anyone can give a reason that it wouldn't work, please let us know, > otherwise I have to believe it will work just fine. > > Additionally, the Sun linker has an option that will prevent binaries from > searching through the default path, other than the modules listed in the > runpath, for extra assurance (-B group I believe Stefan said it was > earlier).
I would like to see support for stdcxx integrated as well, and surprisingly, yes, I agree that if *Sun* distributes it, /usr is a good place. However, I do wonder what impression it will give if Sun distributes an alternate C++ runtime with their OS considering they already supply one, that's akin to admitting theirs is somehow deficient. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
