On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 04:28 -0700, UNIX admin wrote:
> > yep. And lets be real here, it is much easier for us
> > to fix GCC compiler
> > to work properly on OpenSolaris than to fix or change
> > mentality of those
> > "lazy" programmers...
>
> Let's be even more realistic then -- those people sho
> yep. And lets be real here, it is much easier for us
> to fix GCC compiler
> to work properly on OpenSolaris than to fix or change
> mentality of those
> "lazy" programmers...
Let's be even more realistic then -- those people should not be programming
then, period.
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On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 13:22 -0700, UNIX admin wrote:
> > Right. In addition I'd like to add that porting (C,
> > C++ code) to Nexenta
> > == porting to Solaris. Zero differences for both
> > drivers and apps. So,
> > it doesn't really matter where developers will settle
> > at Nexenta or at
> > Sol
> Right. In addition I'd like to add that porting (C,
> C++ code) to Nexenta
> == porting to Solaris. Zero differences for both
> drivers and apps. So,
> it doesn't really matter where developers will settle
> at Nexenta or at
> Solaris. Besides, all SUN userland is provided at
> /usr/sun/bin, so S
> Regardless of what I think of some of the GNU tools,
> if Nexenta gets more
> people to try and use OpenSolaris, then it is a
> worthy project IMHO.
But Nexenta tries to make OpenSolaris behave, look and feel like Linux,
effectively hiding the Solaris userland tools and the Solaris kernel.
So
> Few comments:
>
> a) too late for wishes like that;
There is always hope; remember that.
> b) majority of developers using GNU userland all
> over, even on Windows
> they prefer Cygwin over anything else;
That's because they don't know any better. Our job should be to teach them to
know bet
> One thing I don't get yet is why vold been dropped
> (was it?) over
> rmvolmgr? And will vold co-exist with rmvolmgr? But
> may be I just
> misread the document...
Because `vold` was always Sun's problem child, for as long as I can remember...
and I have a very, very long memory.
The thing nev
> There is a lot more Linux specific on GNOME.
>
> THe most important task we have with OpenSolaris is
> to convince people that
> trying to compile on Solaris is a must for every
> OpenSource project.
Actually, we should be teaching people to switch to Solaris as the main
development platform t
> You sure do not like GCC... :-) Well, I like it, even
> I know it is buggy
> sometimes..
No I don't, can you tell? (:-)
Especially after suffering at its braindead mercy, I'd like to not have to ever
have to deal with GCC again. Ever.
> btw, do you know by any chance how to say Sun C
> compile
> You can try:
>
> - set the optimization level to -xO4 or higher
> - pass -xinline=%auto
To this I'd also add, don't use "__inline" (which GCC won't bark on), but
"inline" instead.
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