Re: Installing gcc 2.95

[Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>]

On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Jason Pond wrote:
> Does anyone have any ideas, or a more detailed installation procedure.

Indeed we have received a couple of questions concerning that, so here
is a patch which I' just applying to our documentation:

Would that have helped you when installing GCC?

Gerald


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> <h3><a name="*-*-solaris*">*-*-solaris*</a></h3>
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> <p>Starting with Solaris, Sun does not ship a C compiler any more. To
> bootstrap and install GCC you first have to install a pre-built
> compiler, for example from <a href="http://www.sunfreeware.com/">
> http://www.sunfreeware.com</a>.</p>
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> <hr>
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< <p>A bug in the SunOS4 linker will cause it to crash when linking -fPIC compiled
< objects (and will therefore not allow you to build shared libraries).</p>
< 
< <p>To fix this problem you can either use the most recent version of binutils or
< get the latest SunOS4 linker patch (patch ID 100170-10) from Sun's patch site.</p>
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> <p>A bug in the SunOS4 linker will cause it to crash when linking
> -fPIC compiled objects (and will therefore not allow you to build
> shared libraries).</p>
> 
> <p>To fix this problem you can either use the most recent version of
> binutils or get the latest SunOS4 linker patch (patch ID 100170-10)
> from Sun's patch site.</p>
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< <p><i>Last modified on August 15, 1999.</i></p>
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> <p><i>Last modified on August 17, 1999.</i></p>