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RE: need help with installation
- From: "Anderson, James H [IT]" <james dot h dot anderson at citigroup dot com>
- To: "Andrea 'fwyzard' Bocci" <fwyzard-gcc at libero dot it>, <gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 08:33:29 -0400
- Subject: RE: need help with installation
I'm using Solaris and the Solaris binaries use the Solaris packaging
system which I know nothing about but stronglt suspect thatv they
require admin privileges.
Isn't there an older release of gcc that could bootstrap itself?
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrea 'fwyzard' Bocci [mailto:fwyzard-gcc@libero.it]
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 8:18 AM
To: Anderson, James H [IT]; gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: need help with installation
At 08:09 27/08/2003 -0400, Anderson, James H [IT] wrote:
>I don't seem to have a working C compiler so am unable to do the
initial
>config. I seem to recall that at one time there was a bootstrap option
>that made it possible to build gcc w/o having a compiler on one's
system,
>but I haven't managed to find it for gcc 3.3.1 (I considered pulling
down
>a binary version for Solaris but I don't have admin privileges and need
to
>install in a user directory).
>
>Thanks in advance for any help!
>
>jim
No, you can't build GCC from sources if you don't have a working C
compiler
installed.
But you can find prebuilt binaries for most OSes - see
<http://gcc.gnu.org/install/binaries.html>. If you're using Linux, all
the
distributions I'm aware of ship a working GCC with them, usually from
the
3.2 release, so you should find it on you CDs or downloadable from the
distributor's site.
Happy compileg,
.fwyzard.