Joerg Schilling writes: > Lucky Forumer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi everyone, I need to compile some CGI programs for a web server running > > Sun Solaris 10 (it identifies itself as "SunOS webserv 5.10 > > Generic_125101-02 i86pc") and I really don't want to repartition my HD to > > add yet another OS just for doing these builds. I was wondering if Belenix > > or SchilliX would work. I noticed SchilliX is based on "Nevada" Solaris 11, > > would a binary compiled be backwards-compatible with Solaris 10? > > If you compile on schillix, the binaries work on Sun Solaris. > I cannot speak for other distros.
I thought that SchilliX was based on Nevada. If so, then objects compiled there are *not* guaranteed to work on Sun Solaris 10. There is currently no released Sun Solaris product that corresponds to 11 -- Nevada is still under development. If you compile on any version of Solaris, and your application conforms to the ABI, then Sun guarantees that it'll work on future versions of Solaris. See (among other links for other Solaris versions): http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/programs/abi/sag.xml The implication is that you should compile on the oldest version of Solaris that you want to support. The reverse is *not* true. You cannot compile on a new version of Solaris and expect the application to work on an old one. It may, if the interfaces haven't changed, but it also might not, and there's no guarantee. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
