Solaris 9 support to be removed from GCC upstream

Riccardo Mottola rmottola at opencsw.org
Tue May 6 00:14:52 CEST 2014


Hi,

Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński wrote:
> We haven't built GCC for Solaris 9 in a long while, the version we've
> got in the 5.9 repo is 4.6. I was looking if we can refresh it, and I
> wanted to report potential compilation errors, but I guess I won't.

that's a pity, since my interest is in GNUstep and thus I need 
objective-c, gcc 4.7 and 4.8 greatly improved Objective-c support.

I fear however that nobody will step up? Gcc support for non-mainstream 
support is certainly not what it used to be :(

Riccardo


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