Re: SunOS 5 Libraries

Path: emory!att!cbnewsh!cbnewsh!wcs From: wcs@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (Bill Stewart 908-949-0705 erebus.att.com!wcs) Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix Message-ID: <WCS.92Feb15212206@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> Date: 16 Feb 92 02:22:06 GMT References: <1992Feb14.162606.10777@demon.co.uk> Sender: wcs@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (Bill Stewart 908-949-0705 erebus.att.com!wcs) Organization: Bush and Noriega - a CRACK Team! In-Reply-To: nbriscoe@cix.compulink.co.uk's message of 14 Feb 92 16: 26:06 GMT In article <1992Feb14.162606.10777@demon.co.uk> nbriscoe@cix.compulink.co.uk (Neil Briscoe) writes: > Convex (I believe) are attempting to get GCC/GDB ready for SunOS5. A > while back they were asking for 100 donations of $2000 to ensure they > released it all at the same time as Sun release Solaris. Don't know It's Cygnus Support, John Gilmore et al.'s GNU support company, which provides commercial-quality proting and support for companies using Free Software Foundation products. You can reach John at gnu@toad.com . When they or whoever else get gcc working, it will be free under the usual GNU Public License definitions of free. They're coordinating with Sun to try to maximize Sun's reasonableness (:-)), as well as working with the FSF. > .... > In SunOS5/Solaris 2 the libraries are shared. If they don't give you > the libraries you ain't gonna run anything. It may be the case that > they don't give you the headers but I believe that only the compiler > itself will be missing. Of course, to use shared libraries you've got to have all the correct formats for object files, etc., so there's a fair amount of work. -- Pray for peace; Bill #Bill Stewart +1-908-949-0705 erebus.att.com!wcs AT&T Bell Labs 4M312 Holmdel NJ ... gotta tend the earth if you want a rose ...