>From shivakumar.gn at gmail.com Mon Sep 17 20:29:27 2007
>> I have a query,
>> Are all softwares in SFW & CCD built using sunpro only or is gcc/g++
>> used. I ask this since tools/gcc & tools/g++ instead of forwarding to
>> underlying gcc/g++, have a error message saying "You should be using
>> Sun CC" and exit.
>>
>
>I see that sfw is being built using sunpro and CCD uses both. Please confirm.
The ccd predates the freely available license for Sun Studio (or whatever
the license is, I think it's freeish :) Thus when I created it I made
everything build with the gcc it contained in case folks wanted to
rebuild the bits it provided. And since it works, and it would seem
like a waste of effort, there is no reason to go make everything build
with Studio (though the tcl/tk users may actually use Studio).
The Common Build Environment for Solaris contains the Sun Studio
compilers and Solaris itself, and one should use Studio if one
can. But since gcc is part of Solaris you can use that if you like.
I know I have only used it if, say, some open source thing requires
porting in order to use Studio, but you could make that choice for
other reasons I suppose (like performance).
Mike
