Thanks very much for your patient reply. Yes, of course, it makes sense that since osol is not natively a GNU system, its GNU libraries will be arranged differently than on GNU/Linux systems, which means that scripts to build applications will often need to be written differently for it.
My main "Angst" at this point is directed at people who managed to compile VLC for Solaris who didn't make what they did to do so publicly available, as one expects from people involved in open source projects. They should also have submitted patches to the VLC developers, which they did not do, as far as I can tell. The only thing I think that one can hold against the VLC people is that they advertise VLC 1.0.0 as "supporting" OpenSolaris. It's perfectly understandable that VLC developers want to concentrate their energies on the most common platforms, so that it's not their responsibility to get the VLC code to compile under OpenSolaris. But if it doesn't, they shouldn't claim that it supports OpenSolaris. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
