He probably does, but the script doesn't know where to look for it.
I've always gotten around this limitation by adding the following
to my user startup files (in my case, .tcshrc)
setenv CC gcc
and optionally
setenv CFLAGS -O3
this works for about 95% of all the programs I build.
At 06:46 AM 12/18/00, John wrote:
>Not to sound rude, but why don't you install GCC on Solaris?
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Leeman Strout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 9:46 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: configure script needs an update.
>
>
>Would the developers be so kind as to update the configure script
>to
>probe the compiler correctly. On a Linux (or probably BSD) system
>this
>is not an issue since gcc is more or less *it*, however in my case
>(Solaris 7) without that probe, the configure script attempts to
>use
>'cc' as the compiler and this fails on Solaris.
>
>I know extremely little about configure scripts, but it appears
>that
>maildrop has a script that works perfectly in this case.
>
>
>Thanks,
>Leeman
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