Dan Falabella <danf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> asks on Thu, 4 Aug 2005 20:59:15 -0400 (EDT) about bootstrapping a build of gcc onto a Sun Solaris 9 system where there is no C compiler installed yet. There are a couple of ways to deal with this: Sun now has a fair amount of free software tools that get installed in /usr/sfw/bin and /opt/sfw/bin, among them, gcc. You can find the needed links at http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/freeware/ http://solaris-x86.org/software/freeware.mhtml ftp://x86.cs.duke.edu/pub/solaris-x86/bins/index.html There are versions available for both Solaris 9 and 10; I don't have any installed on our Solaris 7 or 8 systems. A second way is to get a prebuilt gcc binary distribution from the Solaris package archive at http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/solaris/sparc/ Once you have a fairly recent gcc installed, you MIGHT be able to use it to build a newer version of gcc. I've done hundreds of such builds of the 3.x and 4.x series on 20+ flavors of Unix, and frankly, I'm very disappointed in the success rate, which is far poorer than it was with the 2.9x series. On my Solaris 9 SPARC systems, I have gcc-3.3 installed. On Solaris 10 SPARC, gcc-3.3.6, and Solaris 10 x86, gcc-3.3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - University of Utah FAX: +1 801 581 4148 - - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB Internet e-mail: beebe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe@xxxxxxx beebe@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
