OpenJDK on Solaris Dev Express 1/2008?

[Kelly O'Hair]

Not sure what you mean by the Sun Studio trap.

Each release of a compiler requires some kind of work to the Makefiles,
happened with gcc4, and will happen with SS12 and VS2008.

-kto

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>> GCC will NOT work under Solaris/SPARC, and I'm pretty darned sure it won't
>> work under Solaris/x86 or Solaris/x64.   There are some significant GCC-isms
>> which the JDK does not currently support.
>>
>> That said, it would not be terribly difficult to modify the source to get
>> GCC to work, but you'd definitely have to spend a bit of time doing so.
> 
> Maybe the next logical campaign is to avoid the Sun Studio trap then... :)