I feel your pain, man.
Of course, this is what cross compilers are for. Build a cross-compiling
GCC on a linux box, then use it with native flex and bison to build
Solaris flex and Bison? Joy.
Good luck!
-Jon
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Rick Scott wrote:
> 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??????
>
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