GCC 3.0.3 on Solaris 2.5.1

[Joe Buck]

> On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 09:51:13AM -0800, Joe Buck wrote:
> > Joe Yao writes:
> > 
> > > I'm afraid that at this point my index of suspicion points to binutils,
> > > but I am told [not sure any more that this is true] that gcc 3.* needs
> > > the binutils [for Solaris]
> > 
> > This is incorrect.  gcc 3.* works fine with the vendor-supplied assembler
> > and linker on Solaris.
> 
> Then I am wondering where www.sunfreeware.com came up with both the
> comment on binutils and the comment about 2.95.3 being the latest one
> available for Solaris 2.5.1.

I recently lost access to my Solaris 2.5.1 machine, but at least for a
while there was a problem with gettext, which I needed to specify
--disable-nls to work around.  Perhaps the sunfreeware people ran into
this and gave up.