I have a Nexenta elatte "gnusolaris" partition alongside my NV_27a with
a GNOME 2.12 JDS build. Nexenta is based on the same kernel code and
also contains a GNOME 2.12 desktop. Unfortunately the binaries for the
gnusolaris versions of these applications aren't easily interchangable
with the binaries in Nevada. For example when I try to run gnusolaris
zenity on Nevada, it fails because it expects libXi.so.6 and we have
libXi.so.5. If I set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include /gnusolaris/usr/lib
and /gnusolaris/lib, the gnusolaris binaries run O.K. I was also told
that libXi.so.6 and libXi.so.5 are probably the same library with a
different name!
Wouldn't it make sense to strive for binary compatibility and between
desktop components of various Sun's Solaris distribution and other
opensolaris distributions or should we assume that ISVs will have to
either write everything to a stable ABI (Java?) or rebuild on each Open
Solaris distribution?
It think we could get the most efficient sharing of opensource effort if
we worked with the other distributions to make a community architecture
review or at the very least an equivalent to the LSB standard to work
towards. Cross platform and cross release stability is one of linux's
major weaknesses and there is no reason for us to emulate that.
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