[OpenIndiana-discuss] Could you update your sysroot, jclulow?

[Hung Nguyen Gia]

Excuse me please but even having read this very long manual I still have no idea how to use pkg image-create for my purpose!

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E36870/pkg-1.html


---- On Sun, 17 Jan 2021 20:23:31 +0700 Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com> wrote ----

 > On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 11:15 AM Hung Nguyen Gia via openindiana-discuss < 
 > openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote: 
 >  
 > > I wanted to use your sysroot here to build a cross compiler for OI from 
 > > Linux: 
 > > 
 > > https://github.com/illumos/sysroot 
 > > 
 > > But it seemed you didn't include the C++ part. I couldn't find them. There 
 > > is no C++ headers, e.g: cmath, iostream,... nor the C++ standard library 
 > > itself. 
 > > 
 >  
 > Those are supplied by the toolchain, in our case usually gcc. And you would 
 > normally 
 > need to ensure that the versions in the sysroot are compatible (for 
 > whatever definition of 
 > compatible you're interested in) with the toolchain you're using. 
 >  
 >  
 > > This sysroot is also a bit old, too. 
 > > 
 >  
 > A sysroot can be used for a variety of uses. This one is targetted at 
 > building software on 
 > a current host that will still run correctly on an older system. (This is 
 > also the way that 
 > Oracle built Java for Solaris, I believe, using a Solaris 10 sysroot on a 
 > Solaris 11 build 
 > system so that the resulting binaries will still run on Solaris 10.) 
 >  
 > Generally I would expect anyone using a sysroot to have a pretty specific 
 > target in mind. 
 > It's not that hard to create, either simply copying an existing system that 
 > has the bits you 
 > want, or using packaging - pkg has the image-create functionality designed 
 > for exactly 
 > this purpose. 
 >  
 > Please correct me if I'm wrong. 
 > > 
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