[rescue] Anal-Retentiveness and Source Code

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Thu Feb 7 20:47:34 CST 2002


On February 7, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > Thats why I only use SFWgcc long enough to *recompile* gcc from source.
> 
> How hard is this to do?  I'm working on getting Solaris images (having
> trouble getting the CD images to the wintel machine with the burner) for a 
> machine that I want to colocate.  I've always been under the impression that
> fairly deep magic was needed to compile gcc.

  Uhhh...configure, make.  It's trivial, and has been for years.  It's
a *long* compile, though, and requires a lot of disk space.

    -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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