>
> Has anyone tried to bring a stock Solaris machine up to something
> usefull for
> development????
Me too!!! With Solaris8
>I've spent most of today attempting this, and I'm
> pretty close
> to the point of saying "screw it",
After spending 5 hours per day for 4 days. I said "Screw it" and
installed RedHat 6.2.
>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.
Well, I got gcc from them on CD, they ship it on CD... but my hardware
was too mdern (new) for damn old fashoined (from 18th Century)
Solaris8.
> 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??????
Gone thorugh that too...
then got stuck in a loop of replacing Xsun with Xfree86 4.0 for Solaris8.
It simply not worth of time.
Suhaib
