Re: [COMMITTED] Remove obsolete Solaris 11.3 support

Hi Peter,

On Fri, 2024-05-10 at 12:07 +0100, Peter Tribble wrote:
> Tribblix is built from the last commit that worked (November 2021), with any relevant changes
> since cherry-picked on top. So in terms of timeline Tribblix is contemporary with 11.4, with
> hardware support matching the original Solaris 11 release.

Thanks, good to know! And thanks a lot for your efforts!

> But we're well into the second decade since the fork, so there's enough divergence that illumos
> and Solaris are really different, even if some of what you see looks very similar.
> 
> (And illumos on SPARC uses gcc4 to build the kernel [!], although applications on Tribblix use gcc7.
> Given the target market, having the latest and greatest toolchains isn't the highest priority.)

Well, at some point you will run into code that won't build with that old toolchain anymore.

Adrian

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