On 7/12/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hey, > >> This is exactly what i had in mind -- i had promised Jim Grisanzio > >> that i would write up some of my thoughts on this and ran out of time > >> yesterday evening -- and the issue of common dependencies with GNOME > >> -- and actually with GNU/OpenSolaris -- is a major part of it. i > >> would really like to share these and have just one set of dependencies > >> for both KDE and GNOME. so i was hoping we could work together and > >> decide on a common directory where these will live. > > > >So the obvious questions that come to mind that we probably need to > >discuss are - > > > > o Why aren't these tools already available on Solaris? > > The GNU binutils are already in Solaris. But since Sun's ld generates > more efficient executables and because Sun's as is more uptodate wrt > certain instructions on SPARC, they're gas/gld.
[ opinion ] I would use /usr/ccs/bin/as and /usr/ccs/bin/ld as parameters to the configure script of just about everything long before I'd use the GNU versions. The GNU versions are not quite there yet but I am sure that over time we will see a melded development toolset that addresses both Linux and UNIX with equal brilliance. Over time of course. [ /opinion ] Dennis _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
