On 2/11/2014 4:05 AM, Dmitri Maziuk wrote: > On 10/31/2014 4:53 PM, Kenneth Garges wrote: >> Thanks for the suggestion. I avoided it because everyone in the >> office here said stay away from SunStudio, gcc is way better, Solaris >> compilers are evil, blah blah. > > They're incompatible with gnu build chains, especially libtool, so most > gnuware won't build. Name mangling's different so you can't link c++ > objs to g++ libs (and vise versa), etfc. Other than that, there was > nothing wrong with 'em back when -- now that there is no sun, they'll > presumably get obsolete at some point. > :( > Solaris Studio is still free, and being developed by Oracle.
In the old days when a lot of gcc development was being performed on Sun systems, gcc would often out perform the Sun compilers, these days it's the other way around. That many so-called open source products are developed by people who have a "of course it's portable, it build on both Fedora Core *and* OpenSUSE" is the real problem. Cheers, Gary B-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users