Thank you David and Galen. You saved me from many future problems really :handshake: . I was not aware of such repositories. I will try to install gcc on the machine.
David Boyce wrote: > > 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 > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Cross-compiling-without-.-configure-tp28039536p28053108.html Sent from the Gnu - Make - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
