Has anyone tried to bring a stock Solaris machine up to something usefull for
development???? I've spent most of today attempting this, and I'm pretty close
to the point of saying "screw it", I'll install RedHat. First off, Sun seems
happy to ship with a cc that runs, however the only thing is does is print a
message saying, if you really want a compiler, pay us some more. How stupid is
that!!!!!! I figure "screw you" I'll just download a binary of gcc. So you try
to compile gcc for the specifics of the hardware you have, but it bombs because
it needs ar. Fine, so you get the binutils, which proceed to bomb because you
don't have lex. So you get flex, which bombs because you don't have yacc. So
you get bison, which bombs because you don't have flex.....but your building
bison so you can get flex, which won't build without bison.....How the hell
does anyone manage to bootstrap new hardware with this system. In order to
build anything, everything else must be installed. make seems to be the only
thing that recognizes the fact that you may be building make, because you don't
already have make. Right now I'm stuck in a loop becuase bison needs flex, and
flex needs bison, I have neither??????
