[Sunhelp] SGML tools on Solaris7 or non-GNUified Solaris

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wes Hofmann [mailto:whofmann at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Sunday, November 21, 1999 3:58 PM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: RE: [Sunhelp] SGML tools on Solaris7 or non-GNUified Solaris
> 
> 
> > with some "resistance".  None of the Solaris tools seem to
> > work, and I don't
> > want to GNUify Solaris.  I'd like to re-package this
> 
> Why does there seem to be this anti-GNU attitude with many 
> "Solaris people"?
> I personally think that GNU's tools incorporate many 
> much-needed features
> that I've not found with Solaris.  In fact, I'm running 2.6 
> with the entire
> gnome/enlightenment project alongside virtually all of the GNU tools
> installed in /usr/local.  Please, don't interpret my question 
> as an attack;
> I'm merely curious as to why this stigma about GNU seems to 
> be shared by so
> many.

I'm not anti-gnu, I'd just like to have the darn thing work.  I already have
many of these tools installed with Solaris, I'd like to use them.  If I
wanted to use the GNU stuff, I'd be running Linux, not Solaris.  It just
frustrates me that I've had to spend the entire weekend installing tools
that are replacements for the ones that I already have.  If I could see ANY
functionality difference, I'd go upgrade.  The only difference is that
somebody built packages that don't work with these tools.  Of course, I
still can't compile SGMLtools even with GNU-make, but it at least gets
farther.  
	Greg

P.S.  I'm not a Solaris person, I've only had a Sun up and running Solaris
for a short time now.  I'm really looking to learn Solaris with the built-in
tools, so that I get a good feel for the OS.  I'd like to do unix
administration after I get out of the NT job that I'm in now.