Tool assists porting software from Solaris to Linux
Sep 17, 2002 — by LinuxDevices Staff — from the LinuxDevices Archive — viewsPlanning to migrate an application from Solaris to Linux?
IBM has released PortingManager, a free tool that provides assistance when porting C and C++ Solaris applications to zSeries Linux. PortingManager scans a source code tree, looks for Solaris APIs, flags them, and provides documentation that is useful when porting the API from a Solaris-specific function call to an equivalent Linux function… call.
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