FreeTDS Development Group

[Mihai Ibanescu <misa AT dntis.ro>]

On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Brian Jepson wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Mihai Ibanescu wrote:
> 
> > I'll try to get access to a Sun in order to test stuff on it. The bad part
> > is that they don't ship by default any compiler. I remember a couple of
> > years ago that I installed a Solaris 2.4 and I had forst to find a
> > compiled gcc, and then to compile gcc (this is nasty, it took me 4
> > hours...). And then installing gcc is not very nice. Basically I have to
> > fill that Solaris with GNU gcc, autoconf, automake, make, etc. It's a lot
> > of work...
> >
> 
> Things are a lot easier now - if you are using Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6, or 7,
> you can precompiled binaries from www.sunfreeware.com, including (and
> especially) gcc.  What's more, these are distributed in pkgadd format, so
> they are very easy to install and maintain.

        That's really good news.

                                                Mihai

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