[Vm-dev] [OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm] SunOS (#490)

Tobias Pape Das.Linux at gmx.de
Sat Apr 25 15:11:49 UTC 2020


> On 25.04.2020, at 16:16, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Apr 23, 2020, at 1:56 AM, Tobias Pape <notifications at github.com> wrote:
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>> Here's a crazy idea: can we fold this into the linux build dirs and have the sunos dir be a symlink?
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>> The specifica (like openssl no dynamic) could be dealt with in configure and the platform itself :)
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> Why?  The benefits of having the separate directory are strong; its own HowToBuild, decoupling.  And the space overhead is minimal.  I see no benefit in trying to collapse these at all.

It's just another unix in the first place.

FreeBSD and OpenBSD also build from the linux build dirs.

But all that is for another issue/PR, so let's not get carried away here (saying that foremost to myself0

-t



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