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authorgdt <gdt@pkgsrc.org>2022-04-04 12:55:03 +0000
committergdt <gdt@pkgsrc.org>2022-04-04 12:55:03 +0000
commit5e46721c59953a0964fec0e2f8349f69931e962e (patch)
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parent6b1f8c5a4ff3109d92876f93abe434e253a3f861 (diff)
downloadpkgsrc-5e46721c59953a0964fec0e2f8349f69931e962e.tar.gz
bootstrap/README.Solaris: prune binutils comment
as not supported by other evidence, and explain that illumos-* comes with gcc.
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diff --git a/bootstrap/README.Solaris b/bootstrap/README.Solaris
index 943cb1e398d..be69753903c 100644
--- a/bootstrap/README.Solaris
+++ b/bootstrap/README.Solaris
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$NetBSD: README.Solaris,v 1.19 2022/04/04 12:35:43 gdt Exp $
+$NetBSD: README.Solaris,v 1.20 2022/04/04 12:55:03 gdt Exp $
This README describes pkgsrc on a variety of Solaris-derived operating
systems. It corresponds to pkgsrc/platform/SunOS.mk. The relevant
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ systems, there is only one feasible choice.
As with pkgsrc on other platforms, one should use the same compiler
family and ideally the same compiler version for building all packages.
-Please note that the use of GNU binutils on Solaris is not supported.
+At some time in the past, GNU binutils was not usable on some systems,
+but the status is unclear in 2022.
The following packages are the minimum required on Solaris 8 to
bootstrap and build packages.
@@ -69,7 +70,9 @@ the crle(1) man page to configure the runtime linking environment.
(It is not clear if this is the default on sparc64/amd64, and if not,
why not.)
-On illumos, gcc is the only workable option.
+Generally, illumos-based distributions come with gcc, and gcc is the
+standard approach. As of 2022, there are no recent reports of using
+Sun/Oracle toolchains on illumos.
If you are using gcc