Rick
I'm not sticking up for Sun in the least, but most of what you're
looking for is in /usr/ccs/bin (ar, as, lex, make, yacc). Don't ask me
why it's in this path, I just know it's there from experience. When I
set up a new box here, I usually go to http://www.sunfreeware.com and
grab gzip, tcsh, gcc (or egcs) and emacs packages, and I'm good to go.
Hope this helps,
Ken
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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