Subject: Re: Guide: pkgsrc on Solaris
To: Roland Illig <rillig@NetBSD.org>
From: None <segv@netctl.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 02/21/2006 23:30:32
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 00:24:25 +0100
Roland Illig <rillig@NetBSD.org> wrote:
> segv@netctl.net wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 19:09:50 +0100
> > Roland Illig <rillig@NetBSD.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Another problem I have stumbled upon is that GCC comes with <stdbool.h>,
> >>but SunPro does not. This can lead to situations where all packages that
> >>depend on a certain library have to be compiled with GCC just because
> >>that library assumes that <stdbool.h> exists. I don't know yet how to
> >>work around that.
> >
> >
> > There is /usr/include/stdbool.h file, wouldn't that help?
>
> On Solaris 10 it is, but not on Solaris 8, with which I am working
> currently.
>
> Roland
I may be wrong, but with so many new enhancements and so much development
effort surrounding Solaris 10, the previous versions of Solaris may die out
pretty soon.