Re:You Recompile Anyway (Score 1)

Hi there. I recognize that handle.

Now that we have been able to make the source public, upstream is free to incorporate the changes we've made, and I certainly would hope they do. It's really the same situation as we had with Linux on the mainframe a decade ago.

I don't think anyone has been specifically tasked with pushing the patches upstream, but they're there, and we'd certainly love for them to just go into the upstream tools. We don't want to be supporting forked versions of, well, anything.

After GCC, most everything else (once autotools is patched so that configure recognizes the system type) just falls into place. A new config.sub and config.guess are really what autotools needs (this is exactly like Linux on the mainframe a decade ago) and things, after that, pretty much work.

As you suspect, though, Sine Nomine will certainly be willing to sell commercial support for OpenSolaris on Z, much as we do for other open-source applications and operating systems.

Adam