[csw-maintainers] MySQL built with GCC → mysql config vs bindings

[Peter FELECAN]

Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> writes:

> Excerpts from Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński's message of Fri Jun 22 19:45:35 -0400 2012:
>
>> I wouldn't like this to go unanswered. In my opinion, this is a
>> reasonable target state. I don't mean that there should be only one
>
> For the purposes of our project, having disjointed c++ libraries is
> something that can cause us serious pain.  To avoid this,
> standardizing on one compiler is definitely a good choice.  It would
> let us avoid the /opt/csw/gxx split.  If we do standardize this way
> though, we would likely want to rebuild anything that is c++ and
> provides a library and then all of the dependant packages.  I haven't
> looked at how large a set of packages this is (it may not be too bad),
> but it would be a lot of work too.

Not only C++ based projects are impacted. As I mentioned in this
thread, you can have similar issues with C based projects when the
pkg-config files contain Sun Studio specific arguments; I suspect that
there are shared objects issues also but I'm not sure yet (still
exploring).

-- 
Peter