[KLUG Members] Chicken-egg issues.

[Adam Bultman]

OK, everyone, here's a question.

I downloaded solaris 9 today and installed it on a workstation I purchased 
from ebay.  I resisted the urge to post about installation issues, which I 
later solved (bad CDROM...)

So, now I have Solaris 9 installed, and I figured, "Hey, what the heck, 
lets install the whole thing". Done.  In reading the notes, however, I 
noticed that 'compilers aren't included' in *any* of the packages.  Now 
I'm in a hilarious chicken-egg type of thing.   I'm visiting, and 
downloading heavily from, www.sunfreeware.com, and I've downloaded gcc, 
automake, autoconf, make, and other tools, and I'm starting to get 
annoyed.  GCC needs GCC to compile, Make needs Make to make, make needs 
autoconf, which needs autoconf, which needs automake, which needs 'ar' 
(what the heck?).  

Yes, I've noticed they provide binaries - which is what I'm slowly 
getting, one by one (I'd rather have custom compiled versions).  However, 
is there in existence a group of packages or CD I can get which will 
have  all these, which if I do something like 'make all' will go through 
all of them and install them?  I'm getting annoyed here; I have the 
feeling that before I get my system running with a compiler I'll have 
downloaded just about everything from this site.   

(I know that there are versions of linux for sparc, but I'd like to play
with solaris a while and use it as a workstation. You know,nerd factor
type of stuff.)

Adam
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