Hi Peter, On Fri, 2024-05-10 at 12:07 +0100, Peter Tribble wrote: > Tribblix is built from the last commit that worked (November 2021), with any > relevant changes > since cherry-picked on top. So in terms of timeline Tribblix is contemporary > with 11.4, with > hardware support matching the original Solaris 11 release.
Thanks, good to know! And thanks a lot for your efforts! > But we're well into the second decade since the fork, so there's enough > divergence that illumos > and Solaris are really different, even if some of what you see looks very > similar. > > (And illumos on SPARC uses gcc4 to build the kernel [!], although > applications on Tribblix use gcc7. > Given the target market, having the latest and greatest toolchains isn't the > highest priority.) Well, at some point you will run into code that won't build with that old toolchain anymore. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
