>Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
>> For Solaris we generally do not use auto configuration; this includes even
>> things like perl.
>
>s/Solaris/ON/ - there's a lot of autoconfiguration in the rest of Solaris -
>X, JDS, SFW - probably more software is autoconfigured there than delivered
>by all of ON
>Nicolas Williams wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 03:24:13PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>
>> > The problem with crosss compilations is that it does not really work if
>> > the
>> > software uses dynamic autoconfiguration for portability.
>>
>> That doesn't make cross-compilation useless.
"Garrett D'Amore" wrote:
> Most of ON is not autoconfigured. The only exceptions I can think of
> would likely be related to 3rd party software (perl?)
>
> Certainly NetBSD has found solutions to this problem. :-)
>
> I wouldn't mind putting some of the 3rd party software that depends on
> suc
Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 03:24:13PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > The problem with crosss compilations is that it does not really work if the
> > software uses dynamic autoconfiguration for portability.
>
> That doesn't make cross-compilation useless.
I don't like
Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
> For Solaris we generally do not use auto configuration; this includes even
> things like perl.
s/Solaris/ON/ - there's a lot of autoconfiguration in the rest of Solaris -
X, JDS, SFW - probably more software is autoconfigured there than delivered
by all of ON.
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Joseph Kowalski wrote:
> All I can say is "don't hold your breath". I first picked up "this
> particular torch" in around 1990. I suspect that others picked it up
> before then. The compiler group had always responded, "not worth the
> test matrix". It also seems that we were the major req
Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Joseph Kowalski wrote:
>
>
>> All I can say is "don't hold your breath". I first picked up "this
>> particular torch" in around 1990. I suspect that others picked it up
>> before then. The compiler group had always responded, "not worth the
>> test matrix". It al
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 03:24:13PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Joseph Kowalski wrote:
>
> > All I can say is "don't hold your breath". I first picked up "this
> > particular torch" in around 1990. I suspect that others picked it up
> > before then. The compiler group had always responded
Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Joseph Kowalski wrote:
>
>
>> All I can say is "don't hold your breath". I first picked up "this
>> particular torch" in around 1990. I suspect that others picked it up
>> before then. The compiler group had always responded, "not worth the
>> test matrix". It al
