"McGregor, Van" <VMcGregor@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Help,
> Never having installed gcc on a Sun box. How do I interpret the following message? What needs to be done to configure. Thanks for your help.
> Van
>
> Configuring for a sparc-sun-solaris2.8 host.
> Created "Makefile" in /u01/gccobj using "mh-frag"
> /usr/ucb/cc: language optional software package not installed
> *** The command '/usr/ucb/cc -o conftest -g conftest.c' failed.
> *** You must set the environment variable CC to a working compiler.
Go to www.sunfreeware.com .
GCC is written in C (mostly), therefor you need a C compiler to build
it from source. Either install the solaris language optional
package (which I recall having high per-seat licensing costs), or
get a pre-compiled gcc binary. I believe www.sunfreeware.com still
distributes pre-compiled gcc binaries for solaris. The FSF and
gcc.gnu.org do not distribute pre-compiled binaries for any
platform, but they do have a list of links to other sites that do;
see gcc.gnu.org/install/binaries.html .
