Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Gary Gendel wrote: >> I work for an extremely Linux-centric company. Believe it or not, >> when I mentioned that Sun's Compiler is available on Linux to the >> CTO, he was ecstatic. However, how do you convince the third-party >> vendors to supply their libraries for this? In the past the C++ name >> mangling differences between Sun and Gnu compilers have made this >> impossible. Has anything changed to resolve this? > > How do they deal with the incompatible C++ ABI's between different > gcc/g++ releases? > IMO, In a very silly way: 1) Provide "toolkits" that includes a g++ compiler and all libraries built with that version of the compiler. 2) Require that all distributed products are statically linked.
BTW, I have a different problem with our Solaris platform support... Some of our customers won't patch things unless they are required to. This means that I couldn't use a Sun Compiler beyond Version 8 with Solaris 8 machines because it would require them to install a C run time library patch. To them this is a very big deal. Now that Solaris 8 is EOL, they are migrating to Solaris 9. This makes this less of an issue, but it doesn't eliminate it entirely. I will be happy when that version reaches it's EOL too. Gary _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
