>Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote: >> For Solaris we generally do not use auto configuration; this includes even >> things like perl. > >s/Solaris/ON/ - there's a lot of autoconfiguration in the rest of Solaris - >X, JDS, SFW - probably more software is autoconfigured there than delivered >by all of ON.
For bootstrapping an "Emerging Platform", there's no need to even attempt to compile everything, right? Cross-compile that what you minimally need to start running the rest; that may even be less than ON. Casper