Re: help me catch up on GTK gui tools

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 9 Aug 2006, at 03:27, Brett Stottlemyer wrote:

> Calum,
>
> Thanks for the links, you've given me a lot of new stuff to look  
> at.  I had
> no idea all of that was available; I was disappointed with the  
> selection at
> sunfreeware, which is often out of date.
>
> I'm surprised to hear that some of the software compiles better with
> sunstudio.

That's only if you use our 'common build environment' tools, which we  
use ourselves for building GNOME on S10 and OpenSolaris.  Some of the  
compiler options etc. are different between SunStudio and gcc, and  
since SunStudio is one of our products, making our build tools work  
best with that is obviously our priority.  gcc will work in many  
cases too, and we'd like it to work even better...  I'm sure patches  
would be welcome :)

> I thought many of the libraries (like gtk) were built with gcc.
> I would expect better performance from sunstudio (as the native  
> compiler),
> but more trouble compiling.

If you're just downloading community tarballs and going the usual  
configure/make/install route, gcc should work just fine, and may even  
be preferable, as that's probably what it's been built and tested  
with.  (Albeit probably on Linux.)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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