[OpenIndiana-discuss] Status of compilers in use for OI

[Bryan N Iotti]

Ok, understood.

That basically seems to make for a very high barrier to contribution and 
a lot of work for those who actually have access to those compilers in 
order to keep everything running.

Thank you for the answers.

Bryan

On 07/12/13 11:13 PM, Jim Klimov wrote:
> On 2013-07-12 21:52, Bryan N Iotti wrote:
>> Thank you all for helping make this clearer.
>>
>> So, in order to compile something using the same tools that are used to
>> build /stable, I would use pkg:/developer/sunstudio12u1 while for
>> hipster I'd use GCC 4.6.3?
>
> Unfortunately, no.
>
> There was a specific post-release patched version of Sun Studio
> which is not redistributable, so basically only those who have
> downloaded it sometime back in 2010 can still use it. It is not
> available from Oracle website (unlike the base SS12 or SS12u1
> which are not it), as well as the OI-bundled package is not it.
>
> The package in the OI does provide some other tools needed for
> the build, but not the specific known-to-work-unlike-others
> version of the compiler.
>
> //Jim
>
>
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