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Build environment usually is about CLI. Without daemons, abstracting from distcc and similar tools. X11 for Cairo is optional. As is OpenGL or Win32 GDI. But y
by vetinari 11y ago
Build environment usually is about CLI. Without daemons, abstracting from distcc and similar tools.
X11 for Cairo is optional. As is OpenGL or Win32 GDI. But yes, POSIX as it is, is a very limited API and for practical purposes, you need other APIs.
Yes, I have past experience with DX-UG/Tru64 and Solaris. At the time when Alpha AXP was a current chip, it was a little wonder to get to compile the same source code with different compilers, as they had different ideas about what a valid C code is. For Solaris, the easiest way to build anything was to get gcc instead of sun studio compiler. I think that Sun's GNU packages were built using gcc too.
Nowadays, I don't know about all other unices, because I'm using only Linux and OSX too. From the commonly used OSes, the most annoying to build something on is Windows.