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.