[rescue] Building gcc

Bill Bradford rescue at sunhelp.org
Tue Dec 18 10:43:01 CST 2001


On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 11:04:23AM -0500, Kevin Loch wrote:
> > either that, or if you're using solaris 8 get the software companion CD image whihch has gcc and all the tools pre-compiled for solaris 8, and in my view seem to be better than the sunfreeware ones (except they install to /opt/sfw instead of /usr/local ugh!!!)
> That is reason enough not to touch that CD.  Someone needs to whack Sun
> with
> a clue by four over the whole /opt fetish.
> KL

# ln -s /opt/sfw /usr/local

problem solved.  Or, if /usr/local already exists:

# ln -s /usr/local /opt/sfw

(if you havent installed anything in /opt/sfw yet)

Works just fine..

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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Austin, TX



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