good platform to build da Vinci on?

[Christian Thalinger]

On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 16:57 +0200, Raffaello Giulietti wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> each time I download a newer da Vinci repository on my (virtual) Ubuntu,
> I also get newer build error to chase and adjust. This is becoming
> tedious, error-prone and requires too much time. Further, it doesn't
> directly contribute to my project which consists in *using* the JVM
> extensions to implement a dynamic language on top of the mlvm.
> 
> So, rather than insisting with Ubuntu, I'm ready to switch to
> (Open)Solaris (32 bits) instead and give up my attempts to build on Linux.
> 
> Does anybody have experience with building da Vinci on (Open)Solaris?
> Does it goes easily and without troubles? Are there special issues to
> take into account?

Yes, I'm building mlvm (well, HotSpot) on OpenSolaris everyday and there
are no troubles.  There could be some build problems with the newest Sun
Studio version shipped in OpenSolaris, but I guess not.

-- Christian