[KLUG Members] Chicken-egg issues

[Adam Williams]

> >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?

Has anyone done a cross-compile?  I know it can be done (I've sat in a
chair and watched it).  But my attempt was a failure.  Years ago with
gcc on AIX I tried to build Linux binaries.  Compiling worked, but
linking resulted in a screen full of trash.