Przemyslaw Czerpak wrote: > > I also installed OpenSolaris in VirtualBox and made some tests. > Looks that code designed for Solaris works also with OpenSolaris > so there is no problem with backward compatibility. The one yes, they share the same code base, OpenSolaris is the base for Solaris releases, it is just released more often.
> thing which is very pleasure in OpenSolaris is easy access to > GNU tools which can be installed by package manager in practice > automatically and used instead of native SunOS ones. It's also > much easier to port GNU tools to OpenSolaris then to the older > Solaris versions due to greatly extended compatibility. True, just a few minutes and all is installed and working! > Harbour can be compiled without any problems and everything also > shared libraries works out of the box. It's enough to set -fPIC > (or -fpic but I haven't made any tests with SPARC so I'm not sure > if 8KB is still enough for Harbour code). > For make_gcc.sh I had to make some small cosmetic modifications. > I'll commit them in a while. Do you know if a 64bit harbour can be compiled as well? I've built a 32bit version, which is enough for me, but anyway I'm running the 64bit version of OpenSolaris. I also had to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /opt/harbour/lib to be able to use the .so libraries. > In the older Solaris versions using POSIX threads is not such easy. > They were not default part of system. That's the main reason. > Now it's not a problem though if we can add support for SunOS threads > with small cost then I think we should make it. It should be rather > simple job for an hour or two. I'll look at it in this week. > Ok, thanks! Maurilio. -- __________ | | | |__| Maurilio Longo |_|_|_|____| farmaconsult s.r.l. _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list Harbour@harbour-project.org http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
