Thanks Tim,

I did what you suggested, and it works. It doesn't take that long.

Again
Thanks
Francis


Tim Carlson wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 16 May 2002, Zachary Buckholz wrote:
> 
> > If so you will need to spend several hours installing third part GNU
> > software to have a semi-functional system. Visit www.gnu.org and start
> > installing if you can't locate gcc on your system
> >
> > If not using Solaris then the simple answer is gcc is not in your path.
> 
> A useful answer would be that if you are using Solaris, go to
> www.sunfreeware.com and install the gcc-2.95.3 compiler which should take
> you the better part of 10 minutes. You need a compiler, and you need one
> pre-compiled.
> 
> <rant>
> Don't use gcc-3.0.3 from sunfreeware as it was compiled with GNU binutils
> which does not have to be done and make things more complicated
> </rant>
> 
> Then reinstall perl from scratch. The perl shipped with Solaris assumes
> you have the Solaris compiler, so building modules is going to be a pain
> even if you symlink cc to gcc... -fpic isn't -KPIC.. etc
> 
> Tim
> 
> Tim Carlson
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