CVS commit: pkgsrc/bootstrap

["Greg Troxel" <gdt%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    pkgsrc
Committed By:   gdt
Date:           Mon Apr  4 12:55:03 UTC 2022

Modified Files:
        pkgsrc/bootstrap: README.Solaris

Log Message:
bootstrap/README.Solaris: prune binutils comment

as not supported by other evidence, and explain that illumos-* comes
with gcc.


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.19 -r1.20 pkgsrc/bootstrap/README.Solaris

Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
copyright notices on the relevant files.

Modified files:

Index: pkgsrc/bootstrap/README.Solaris
diff -u pkgsrc/bootstrap/README.Solaris:1.19 pkgsrc/bootstrap/README.Solaris:1.20
--- pkgsrc/bootstrap/README.Solaris:1.19        Mon Apr  4 12:35:43 2022
+++ pkgsrc/bootstrap/README.Solaris     Mon Apr  4 12:55:03 2022
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$NetBSD: README.Solaris,v 1.19 2022/04/04 12:35:43 gdt Exp $
+$NetBSD: README.Solaris,v 1.20 2022/04/04 12:55:03 gdt Exp $
 
 This README describes pkgsrc on a variety of Solaris-derived operating
 systems.  It corresponds to pkgsrc/platform/SunOS.mk.  The relevant
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ systems, there is only one feasible choi
 As with pkgsrc on other platforms, one should use the same compiler
 family and ideally the same compiler version for building all packages.
 
-Please note that the use of GNU binutils on Solaris is not supported.
+At some time in the past, GNU binutils was not usable on some systems,
+but the status is unclear in 2022.
 
 The following packages are the minimum required on Solaris 8 to
 bootstrap and build packages.
@@ -69,7 +70,9 @@ the crle(1) man page to configure the ru
 (It is not clear if this is the default on sparc64/amd64, and if not,
 why not.)
 
-On illumos, gcc is the only workable option.
+Generally, illumos-based distributions come with gcc, and gcc is the
+standard approach.  As of 2022, there are no recent reports of using
+Sun/Oracle toolchains on illumos.
 
 
 If you are using gcc