On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Alasdair Allan wrote:
> > Exactly, including Solaris is essential to keep our portability genuine
>
> Agreed!
>
> > Personally I don't consider requiring GNU tool installations to be quite
> > the same as "portable", although its clear some do now.
>
> I think its pretty much accepted now that GNU installation tools are
> the "standard" thing, there _are_ builds for just about every OS you'd
> actually want to build things on...
But the fact remains that GNU installation tools don't always work as well
as "native" ones (I still have the scars from trying to get a gcc that
worked reliably under Digital UNIX) and worse still are littered with
extensions that are not part of the "language" (be that c, f77, or even
make, sh etc.). Portability means sticking to standards, not a tool set.
Peter.
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