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20080820 Wednesday August 20, 2008

Goodbye Solaris 9 (for Sun Studio)


We're making the internal transition to building Sun Studio on Solaris 10 (instead of Solaris 9). This is a big deal because the product bits immediately become useless on any Solaris 9 system. There's a new libm.so.2 library that became available on Solaris 10, and if you depend on it, you can't run on Solaris 9. It's a challenge making sure our vast ocean of loosely maintained lab machines is ready for the change. The good news is we get to use newer, faster hardware. :-)

I'll make this post short because I'm using ScribeFire for the first time in forever, and I don't trust it. I can't believe blogging is still this hard. :-(

Posted by Chris Quenelle ( Aug 20 2008, 06:15:17 PM PDT ) - Permalink - -

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mug shot Chris Quenelle is a tools developer at Sun Microsystems. He's worked on performance and debugging tools at Sun for more than 10 years. He reads comic books and science fiction, and has more tivos than he can keep track of.

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