Building gcc 2.95 on Solaris 2.6

[John Riddoch]

In comp.unix.solaris xinhuang@my-deja.com wrote:
> I am trying to build gcc 2.95.1 on a Solaris 2.6 (SC 4.2 on Ultra1)
> Because I am not superuser, I cannot install the binary from
> sunfreeware. And I don't have any old gcc installed on the system.

Have you tried asking your admin to install it for you?

> But I failed many times. So if you have any experience, please help!

> 1. Should I set CC to "/usr/ucb/cc", or "/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc", or
> nothing?

/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc

> 2. Should I use "/usr/bin/make" or "/usr/local/bin/gnumake"?

/usr/ccs/bin/make or /usr/local/bin/gnumake should both be fine.

> 3. Should I set any other env variables?

Unless there is something relevant in the install docs, no; you may
wish to consider some optimising flags to be set under CFLAGS (eg,
export CFLAGS='-O')

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