[csw-maintainers] Solaris 9 and amd64

[Joerg Schilling]

Maciej (Matchek) Blizi??ski <maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:

> > Then we would need to forbid such patches that introduce harcoded strings like
> > "/opt/csw".
> >
> > If there is really a need to have such strings in the code, they should be
> > "introduced" via defines from the cc command line like:
> >
> >        cc '-DMY_STRING="/some/path"'
> >
> > and thus could be passed as parameters to the build system.
>
> I suppose that someone has to start by attempting to build from GAR
> sources into a new tree and fix things on the way.

These changes however look easier to integrate than adding support for 
versioned libraries.

Versioned libraries on the other side are extremly important to achive binary 
compatibility with Oracle Solaris.

Jörg

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