On 1/24/06, Cyril Plisko <cyril.plisko at gmail.com> wrote: > On 1/24/06, Dennis Clarke <blastwave at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I think that we would do well if we had the Sun WorkShop Compilers > > tools for the Solaris 2.5.1 PPC release also. Since we have gone > > through the trouble and time to actually get the required hardware and > > scoured the earth for a copy of the OS also. How tough can it be to > > drag out a CDROM from a dust bin somewhere ? > > Dennis, > > I am not sure how useful WorkShop/PPC would be for us. > Think about it - it is native kit. And it is little endian. > It can only run on little endian environment and can only > create little endian bins (although I am not entirely sure on > the latter).
Hold it .. I thought we had this discussion. I guess not. > GCC really looks like a good choice, provided that > a). GCC compilability of ON will be finished and integrated > b). GCC support for powerpc-*-solaris2 will be done. Absolutely .. however I thought there was value in access to the WorkShop tools of yesteryear. As well as a running PowerPC Solaris 2.5.1 server. Otherwise I would not have gone down that road to a point where the machine is sitting here looking at me. > I think that GCC is very reasonable approach for us. We agreed on that a long time ago. I thought the problem was the GCC revisions that we have available to us that respect the triple with ppc and solaris in it. Dennis
