[kde-solaris] g++ or sun compiler?

[Pavel Heimlich, a.k.a. hajma]

2009/12/15 Thorsten Hirsch <t.hirsch at web.de>:
> Hi,
>
> as far as I've followed your discussions, it seems that most of you
> are using the SunStudio compiler. Is there a special reason for this?
> The compiler notes of Qt 4.6
> (http://qt.nokia.com/doc/4.6/compiler-notes.html) say, that Sun CC
> doesn't support all the features, e.g. WebKit is not supported. And -

They must have outdated informations then. Webkit did not build with
plain SS12. SS12 with all available patches builds it fine, SS12U1 as
well.

> it's been some months since I tried Sun CC - it also failed to compile
> the concurrent examples.

not sure about the examples, AFAIK we build without them

>
> Since osol ships g++ 3.4.2, which is fully supported (or am I wrong?),
> I thought it would be better to use the GNU compiler.
>
> Regards,
> Thorsten