On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 07:39:42PM -0500, David T-G wrote:
> Lars --
>
> ...and then Lars Hecking said...
> % David T-G writes:
> % > Chris --
> % >
> % > I don't have a lot of input on your Solaris build, but I do know that the
> % > Sun-supplied make and cc just plain stink. You mentioned that your gcc is
> % > old; can you get/build a new one and then try with that?
> %
> % Old by date, but still, it's the previous release :) His problems are
> % certainly not related to this, as the real failures are at install time:
>
> Well, I just started with his statement that an old version of gcc only
> gets about 4 lines into the process :-)
>
No, it's an old version of GNU make, I have a very up to date version
of gcc.
>
> %
> % In there is a bug in make install for doc/muttrc.man if mutt is built
> % outside the source directory.
> %
> % While Sun ships a few crappy tools, make is quite decent. And the C compiler
> % (commercial, not the defunct stub in /usr/ucb) is quite good as well.
>
> I know that the sparcworks compiler package is good, but I didn't know
> that one in /usr/ccs was any good. I'm a happy Sun bigot, myself,
> and do a lot on them :-) Maybe I'll have to check into compiliing...
>
It's the make we're talking about here. Sun still provides a proper
make and it's in /usr/ccs/bin/make. That of course is also where the
'dummy' cc is that tell's you it's not a real cc if you don't have
the development tools.
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