zig/lib
Alex Rønne Petersen dba1bf9353 remove all Oracle Solaris support
There is no straightforward way for the Zig team to access the Solaris system
headers; to do this, one has to create an Oracle account, accept their EULA to
download the installer ISO, and finally install it on a machine or VM. We do not
have to jump through hoops like this for any other OS that we support, and no
one on the team has expressed willingness to do it.

As a result, we cannot audit any Solaris contributions to std.c or other
similarly sensitive parts of the standard library. The best we would be able to
do is assume that Solaris and illumos are 100% compatible with no way to verify
that assumption. But at that point, the solaris and illumos OS tags would be
functionally identical anyway.

For Solaris especially, any contributions that involve APIs introduced after the
OS was made closed-source would also be inherently more risky than equivalent
contributions for other proprietary OSs due to the case of Google LLC v. Oracle
America, Inc., wherein Oracle clearly demonstrated its willingness to pursue
legal action against entities that merely copy API declarations.

Finally, Oracle laid off most of the Solaris team in 2017; the OS has been in
maintenance mode since, presumably to be retired completely sometime in the 2030s.

For these reasons, this commit removes all Oracle Solaris support.

Anyone who still wishes to use Zig on Solaris can try their luck by simply using
illumos instead of solaris in target triples - chances are it'll work. But there
will be no effort from the Zig team to support this use case; we recommend that
people move to illumos instead.
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build-web std.Build: implement unit test timeouts 2025-10-18 09:28:39 +01:00
c compiler-rt: move strlen from libzigc to here 2025-08-30 06:36:41 +02:00
compiler remove all Oracle Solaris support 2025-10-27 07:35:38 -07:00
compiler_rt tweak tests to avoid timeouts 2025-10-18 09:28:42 +01:00
docs std.fmt: delete deprecated APIs 2025-08-31 12:49:18 -07:00
include zig cc: update intrinsic headers to LLVM 21 2025-08-30 06:36:40 +02:00
init fix: fix typo in comment by removing repeated 'business' word 2025-08-24 23:00:17 +02:00
libc glibc: change library link order to prefer libc.so symbols 2025-10-19 11:50:32 +02:00
libcxx libcxx: backport llvm/llvm-project#158347 2025-10-17 15:02:04 +02:00
libcxxabi libcxxabi: update to LLVM 21 2025-08-30 06:36:40 +02:00
libtsan tsan: fix cross build for FreeBSD by using direct syscalls instead of libsys 2025-10-26 11:12:22 +01:00
libunwind libunwind: backport llvm/llvm-project#162867 2025-10-17 15:02:02 +02:00
std remove all Oracle Solaris support 2025-10-27 07:35:38 -07:00
c.zig libc: use zig isnan and derivates for mingw 2025-08-27 03:58:32 +02:00
compiler_rt.zig compiler-rt: move strlen from libzigc to here 2025-08-30 06:36:41 +02:00
fuzzer.zig fuzzing: fix off-by-one in limit count 2025-09-25 17:16:10 -07:00
ubsan_rt.zig Coff: implement threadlocal variables 2025-10-10 22:47:47 -07:00
zig.h zig.h: add or1k support 2025-10-18 22:26:52 +02:00