good platform to build da Vinci on?

[Raffaello Giulietti]

Christian Thalinger wrote:
> 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
> 

Nice to hear!

Tomorrow I'll start afresh with OpenSolaris/VirtualBox.