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We currently have Solaris 2.4 x86 running on a Pentium machine.  The
distribution of the software we have (educational version) did not
include any cc compiler and we wanted to install gcc to use with it.  Has
anyone successfully installed and compiled the gcc (2.6.3), and if so how
do you do it?

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Quote:>We currently have Solaris 2.4 x86 running on a Pentium machine.  The
>distribution of the software we have (educational version) did not
>include any cc compiler and we wanted to install gcc to use with it.  Has
>anyone successfully installed and compiled the gcc (2.6.3), and if so how
>do you do it?

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: First, download gcc binaries from prep.ai.mit.edu ( or mirrors )
: and install it on your computer. The binaries version will be 2.5.x
: Than download source of gcc 2.6.3 and recompile it with binaries
: you have.

  Or you could just get a precompiled 2.6.3 from camus.quintus.com...

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Quote:> Hope someone can help us with our "small" problem.
> We currently have Solaris 2.4 x86 running on a Pentium machine.  The
> distribution of the software we have (educational version) did not
> include any cc compiler and we wanted to install gcc to use with it.  Has
> anyone successfully installed and compiled the gcc (2.6.3), and if so how
> do you do it?

server.berkeley.edu has gcc 2.6.3 in /pub/x86solaris/compilers

-- Jason

Basic 2.4 doesn't ship with a compiler.  There is a pretty good resource,
Fiver's Home Page, on the web that is helpful.  It has a link to an
anonymous ftp site that holds a precompiled version of gcc 2.6.3 and some
other GNU utilities.  Enough so that you have the necessary tools to
build the rest.

Get the precompiled 2.6.3, unzip and untar it in /usr/local, and run
the shell script FIXHEADER (I'm probably wrong about the name, but you'll
find it).  Then add /usr/local/bin to your PATH.

There is plenty more to do after that, but you'll be off to a good start.

Good Luck,
Clinton

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>Hope someone can help us with our "small" problem.

>We currently have Solaris 2.4 x86 running on a Pentium machine.  The
>distribution of the software we have (educational version) did not