[OSUNIX-dev] Re: [hpcdev-discuss] Porting open64 to solaris

[John Martin]

C. Bergström wrote:
> To follow up on this very old thread.. John.. I'm not sure if you ended 
> up recreating that work you said you would, but didn't want to bother 
> you... Another guy on our team started to take the port up again 
> recently..  Some of the missing functions are now available in our 
> snv_107 based zone so that took care of a few things...
>
> Current patches and status are here
> http://bugs.osunix.org/browse/OSUNIX-44
>
> It's not done and I think there's a few sticky points left.. For example 
> the building of gnu ld.. and also the gnu as + gcc being needed for 
> 64bit code..
>
> Anyway.. if anyone wants to take a quick look at the patch, give a quick 
> tip or helping hand we'd most appreciate it.
>
>   
This biggest headache I had doing the port was asprintf()/vasprintf().
There was a lot of code that used these functions.  Once we have this 
with b107,
it will make things a lot easier.