On 16-Jun-00 at 17:48, Jon A. Christopher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
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> I feel your pain, man.
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> 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.
Of course I would also need a cross compiled libc, no??? Which is just a little
bit further than I am willing to go in order to make Solaris usefull. Phrases
like "dug your own grave", and "flush" are coming to mind. Even the Sun can be
replaced these days......
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> Good luck!
> -Jon
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> On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Rick Scott wrote:
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> > 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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> Texas A&M University MS-2128 / lesstif: http://www.lesstif.org/
> College Station, TX, 77843 / personal: http://quorum.tamu.edu/jon
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