Alex Viskovatoff <[email protected]> wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: > > >you should realise that many open source projects develop software that > >often only correctly (or easily) compiles on GNU-based operating systems. > > I'm confused. What then is the point of all those GNU packages in > OpenSolaris? It is in order to port software from GNU/Linux to Solaris, as > far as I understand. Is there some technical reason why a program written for > the gcc compiler and which uses GNU libraries must in principle be more > difficult to compile under OpenSolaris than under a Linux distribution such > as Fedora or OpenSUSE? Solaris has its own native tools and libraries, in > their own directories, so nothing that is done to GNU packages can break > native Solaris applications. > > Shouldn't the ideal be that any application that complies under GNU/Linux > will compile under OpenSolaris? And isn't realizing that ideal simply a > matter of putting enough work into the porting of GNU tools and libraries to > Solaris? Or am I missing something?
A cleanly writen application will compile and work on both Linux and Solaris. Many programs that have been only developed on Linux are not written "cleanly" as Linux is not POSIX compliant. This (and the fact that there are better debugging tools on Solaris) is a strong hint for doing development on Solaris ;-) Many "linux developers" still believe that Solaris is not open or costs money. We need to educate them that only their mind prevents them from doing at least tests on a POSIX compliant platform. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
