"Richard L. Hamilton" <rlha...@smart.net> wrote:
> Ok, fine. But what do the internal developers use to build on?
>
> Until Indiana was self-hosting, they built on SXCE.
> AFAIK, once Indiana was self-hosting, they built on it.
>
> Some (no doubt not all) would like to stay in sync with what they're
> building on, as much as possible.
>
> How well will a community distro be able to do that?
A community distro will need to fix a lot in the build system.
I still do not understand why Sun did vever fix the build system.
The current need of so called "flag days" is no more than a result
of a bad build system. A build system that is self hosting does
not depend on a specific underlying OS.
I am currently bit enervated as I installed the SS-12.1 tarbarll
as noted on the website but I still get compiler errors from
compiling b130 on SXCE b130.
Jörg
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