[rescue] Anal-Retentiveness and Source Code

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 03:44:28PM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 03:16:50PM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> > See?  I trusted Sun to be able to download and build GCC with a sensible
> > set of dependencies (like, oh, the -linker- it -has- to work with to build
> > shared libs and executables) and in a sensible configuration, and it
> > burned me.  The whole time I thought I was just being anal-retentive
> > about this on Solaris, but now I'm finally justified.  Old man Murphy was
> > sitting right there in SFWgcc grinning at me.
> > Not that Sun's the only culprit here.  I've had this experience with SGI's
> > precompiled freeware and even with DeadRat/SPARC 5.2.  I just really don't
> > trust vendors to build open-source software competently anymore.
> 
> 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.

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Joshua D. Boyd