On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 22:21 +1200, Wesley Parish wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:49, Glynn Foster wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 10:36 +1200, Michael JasonSmith wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 02:08 +1200, Wesley Parish wrote:
> > > > I was somewhat disgusted that the APC version _didn't_ come with gcc.
> > > >From what I remember, Solaris has its own compiler and gcc is optional.
> > >
> > > (The Solaris servers I use have the Sun compiler ripped from the disks!)
> >
> > Sun Studio has come on in leaps and bounds over the last year or two -
> > still not free though. It does build code that is better optimized on
> > Solaris though, FWIW.
>
> The Genunix site does have gcc for download, as *.tar.bz2 - but the APC
> Solaris distro doesn't include GNU tar, which includes the j switch for
> handling bzip2 files.
use bunzip to get a tar then use tar in the normal way, you can pipe it
too.
>
> Fun and games on the Solaris front, fun and games ... ;) I'll let you know
> if
> I can get everything compiling!
> >
> >
> > Glynn
> >
> > Remembering the fun days when printf ("%s", NULL) crashed applications
> > built with Forte :)
>
> Wesley Parish
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