Is OpenSolaris going to include the Sun C/C++ Compiler?
Hi,
When Sun opensources Solaris, will it compile with GCC, or am I gonna need Sun's C/C++ Compiler / Forte to compile OpenSolaris?
There would be no point in releasing OpenSolaris without the tools to compile it. Has the Solaris team already tested the compilation of the OS with GCC? Or is Sun planning to release an open source / free (as in beer) C/C++ compiler version of their commercial tool?
[426 byte] By [
Skywa1k3r] at [2007-11-26 0:44:20]

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There are rumours that the FCS release of Solaris 10 will include
gcc-3 in /usr/sfw/bin (apparently including amd64 support on
Solaris 10 x86).
Solaris 10 x86 b72 already includes several modifications to system
header files with gcc support (e.g. /usr/include/asm/*
or /usr/include/sys/va_list.h )
But I've no idea what they'll use to compile OpenSolaris source
code. Maybe the gcc-3 from /usr/sfw/bin, maybe not...