[SunRescue] Shells

[Peter Koch]

Hi!

Yup, i'm using tcsh too. I like it very much.

I had troubles compiling bash on Sol 7, but tcsh did build out of the box.
But you guys are surely asking for already compiled programs, aren't you?

Solaris doesn't have ANY GNU program we're so used to. That's one of the
magics Linux gives us for free.

Take this: For every new version of Solaris i undertake the following
procedure: Grab the newest gcc, tcsh, flex, bison, less, gmake, patch.
perl, apache, squid, sendmail, mysql, samba, cap, netpbm, ssh, X11,
... (anything else? sure i forgot a lot)...

Then i need a week to compile all these things and make MY Solaris
a complete system. I'm not a friend of grabbing precompiled packages,
because i can (and it's my job and it's fun) build the stuff myself.

The hardest hurdles are gzip (sure) and gcc. All else goes smoothly.
These two i usually grab in binary (or take the older ones from the
former Solaris version) but recompile gcc and gzip then.

Precompiled gzip and gcc can be found on www.sunfreeware.com.

Tschuess

Peter