> David, thank you for your feedback and sense of humour. > Nothing like a silly question when you recognize you know nothing and > assume nothing.
No problem. People laugh at me all the time. 8-) > If I take an application running on SUN/Solaris 10 with Oracle 10g, > mostly some scripts for batch processing, plus Oracle with PL/SQL > stored procedures and take it to OpenSolaris, I just have to copy. I > assume for my batch calling Cobol, I would just re-compile. In other > words, a trivial task. correct? Assuming the availability of appropriate compilers and Oracle, etc, yes. The OpenSolaris port we're working on does NOT interpret SPARC or Intel binary instructions (although that's not impossible, just harder than we want to take on in our unpaid spare time), so you would have to have compilers, etc that knew how to emit 390 binaries. Fortunately, recent drops of OpenSolaris have removed most (if not all) oddball requirements for non-GNU compiler and linker tools (and our patches remove a bunch more cases), so most of the GNU compiler suite is immediately available on recompile as well. First stage builds of the OS are done with a cross-compiler on a SPARC64 machine, then we're self-hosted from there on. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
