We had a discussion about this here yesterday. Phil, why don't you go for
the native Solaris C library and the native compiler.  Take it step by
step: lwp, rpc2, rvm etc. and lets review what it looks like after each
step.

The key will be to really use the features of autoconf, like other
advanced programs do, (Arla, Emacs etc) to avoid getting into a header
mess.  I do think we need GNU make at the moment, but thats probably
easily arranged.

The benefit of the native approach will be that it shakes out new bugs,
allows us to use hopefully beautiful Solaris profiling tools etc, and
perhaps Purify.

- Peter -





On Thu, 6 May 1999, Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 5 May 1999, Peter J. Braam wrote:
> 
> > We are trying to get Coda going on Solaris, Phil is spending time on
> > that during this summer for the Coda project.
> > 
> > My first impression trying myself was that the header layout on Solaris
> > is sufficiently different that it might warrant using glibc under
> > Solaris.  Are there opinions on this? 
> 
> What about re-using the code and the methods used by Arla?
> glibc is still not ported to Solaris, as far as I know...
> 
> Jozsef
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