[KLUG Members] Chicken-egg issues

[Peter Buxton]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 12:51:33AM -0400, Adam Bultman was only escaped
   alone to tell thee:

> 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?).  

ar(1) is an archive utility used for, among other things, .so files
(shared libraries).

What about cross-compiling from Linux to Solaris?

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