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

[Jonathan Craig]

Sorry if this becomes a double post as I thought I sent this last
night.  This also affects language packages such as perl, ruby, etc,
in that end users wishing to compile libraries are forced to put
together a solaris studio environment and potentially forced to
navigate the issues of compiling a gcc oriented module using studio.
As we cannot package a studio install this becomes a source of
consternation for the end user.  I know some of these packages have
offered gcc/studio variants but this becomes a burden for the packager
and in times where cycles are short the GCC variant may become delayed
or non-existent.

Jon

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 9:13 PM, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Excerpts from Peter FELECAN's message of Sun Jun 24 14:07:13 -0400 2012:
>
> Hi Peter,
>
>> 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).
>
> Yes, sorry, I'd forgotten to discuss that point.  This means that a
> switch to GNU as the preferred compiler set means we'd need to rebuild
> any C++ app with a footprint in $(libdir) in addition to any package
> providing a *-config program.
>
> Thanks
> -Ben
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