On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 00:34 +1200, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: ... > > The way I read it, I would still need to travel to hell and back with > the laundry list of GNU stuff I would need to install along with heaps
I don't think thats really the case. Yes, there is some GNU stuff missing but most of it is here (build 69). The only obvious GNU stuff missing from a build point of view that I can see is the lack of auto* - but in general these are only needed if you are building from a source checkout and need to generate the configure script. > of dependencies with broken Solaris build settings (Qt hard coded to use > sun's CC instead of respecting environment variables). Yes, thats one thing I've noticed. If Solaris is "supported" it assumes Sun Studio and/or sparc. It can be frustrating - best thing to do is to nag the upstream sources. ... > > > > In general things aren't as bad as you are making out. In my experience > > most things actually *do* compile out of the box on the latest builds of > > Nevada with a little PATH magic. > > Probably the better thing is less path magic more correction of the defaults. Indeed. Indiana :) -Mark _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
