Mark Delany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> At 04:32 PM Tuesday 3/23/99, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Mark, that's a standard compiler setup for a Solaris machine. Seriously.
> What?! That the compiler is called gcc is a standard Solaris setup? Now
> I don't understand. None of the Solaris machines I have access to come
> installed with gcc as standard.
I'm making a distinction between "stock" and "standard" that you may not
be. To me, "standard" in this context is "what I expect to see on a
normal Solaris machine." Pretty much everyone who runs lots of Solaris
machines installs gcc sooner or later.
> Now, if I hack around and install non-standard stuff, I may end up with
> a gcc and maybe even a link to that from cc, but as I said, I'd call
> that non-standard and wouldn't expect an independent software bundle to
> know that that's what I'd been doing to my system.
Most free software figures it out, since autoconf copes fine.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
