On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Galen Seitz <[email protected]> wrote: > As I mentioned before, building a cross tool chain is not easy. I strongly > suggest that you install a tool chain directly on the Solaris system if at > all possible. You can find all the packages you need here: > http://www.sunfreeware.com/
Any modern Solaris machine may already have the required tooling in /usr/sfw (stands for "solaris freeware"). Certainly any Solaris 10 system would, and I think Solaris 9 did too. FWIW many Solaris people prefer the stuff at opencsw.org to the stuff at sunfreeware.com (I do). It takes a few minutes to install and configure the pkgutil script and from there on it's a it's a nice auto-updating system analogous to what most Linux distros have. This stuff installs into /opt/csw as opposed to sunfreeware which goes into /usr/local. The Sun compiler (Sun Studio) is also freely available nowadays so you have your choice of that or gcc via either of the sites above. I completely agree with Galen that it's hard to imagine why you'd want to cross compile to a stable, self-hosting OS like Solaris. Usually cross development is done for platforms which do not yet exist or which are too small or simpleminded to host the required tools. David Boyce _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
