[Sunhelp] a pain in the as

[Bill Bradford]

On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 12:34:20AM -0400, Dale Ghent wrote:
> You generally want to /stay away/ from mixing GNU binutils and
> Solaris. For one, to install GNU binutils (the package that contains GNU's
> as, nm, ar and friends) is pretty redundant. Also, they dont offer some of
> the features that the CCS packages offer, like the ability to produce
> 64bit objects on ultrasparcs. I would also think that the objects would be
> of better quality, as well.

I have to agree with Dale here; if you install GNU Binutils (at least every
time I've tried it), from then on GCC thinks you're trying to cross-compile.

I"ve never had any problems installing everything ELSE gnu, tho.

Bill

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