[OpenIndiana-discuss] The Illumos pkgsrc project

[Mads Worsøe Duun]

2011/2/8 Dustin Marquess <dmarquess at gmail.com>

> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Mads Worsøe Duun <mads at worsoe.dk> wrote:
> > Btw my bootstrap script does not support the Sun Studio compiler yet. I
> have
> > had much more success using the gcc compiler. I know that Studio will
> > generate better code, but it will involve much more pkgsrc hacking. My
> > script also first use an external gcc compiler to bootstrap pkgsrc, then
> > compile and switch to a "native" pkgsrc gcc compiler. The pkgsrc compiler
> > used as default in my script is gcc34, but you have the option to use
> gcc44,
> > and the too experimental compilers clang and pcc. This option will also
> > later support Sun Studio.
>
> I agree.  When I used pkgsrc in production on Solaris 10 sun4u
> machines, I used gcc34 over gcc44 / gccfs / Studio because it had the
> highest 'success' rate.  When I started using it on OI amd64 machines,
> I started using Studio because it had a high recommendation on the
> pkgsrc lists, but there is definitely more pkgsrc hacking involved in
> it.
>
> pkgsrc support for gcc 4.x is getting better (I use 4.4 on my NetBSD
> machines), however at least on Sol10/sun4u, I had weird problems with
> certain apps when using 4.x, whereas 3.4 just worked.  Of course 3.x
> also worked better than 4.x for me on my old Tru64 machines, so maybe
> I'm just cursed when it comes to gcc 4 :).
>
> -Dustin
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Thats why I choosed gcc34 as default, and give the option to select another
compiler if you want.

Btw I have uploaded a alpha or maybe more a pre alpha version of the
bootstrap script. It can be downloaded here
http://www.illumos.org/attachments/download/158/ipp