From 5e46721c59953a0964fec0e2f8349f69931e962e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: gdt Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2022 12:55:03 +0000 Subject: bootstrap/README.Solaris: prune binutils comment as not supported by other evidence, and explain that illumos-* comes with gcc. --- bootstrap/README.Solaris | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'bootstrap/README.Solaris') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3