GNU utils on Solaris 8

[dave at dpallan.com (David Allan)]

Hey Brian,

I downloaded gzip and gcc from Sunfreeware, which was all I needed to
compile the rest of the GNU tools, including the binutils package, which I
needed for some other software I use.  This was on Solaris 2.6 SPARC,
though so YMMV.  On Solaris 2.6 (complete install) there are two versions
of ar installed, /usr/ccs/bin/ar and /usr/xpg4/bin/ar I believe I used
/usr/ccs/bin/ar

Dave

On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Brian J.  Conway wrote:

> Greetings.  I'm once again picking up a project that I left off on now
> that Sun's site has updated the downloadble ISOs for Solaris 8 Intel
> to the 04/01 version.  In the past I've gotten a decently customized
> install and had GCC and some other essentials loaded, but I can never
> seem to hunt down all the GNU utilities that I need.  The one that
> comes to mind off the top of my head is 'ar', which is part of
> binutils, and I can't compile binutils as it needs 'ar'.  I've scoured
> www.sunfreeware.com to no avail (though there is some great stuff on
> there that I always snag), nor is there a version on my system
> already.  Any ideas?
>
> Brian J. Conway dogbert at clue4all.net Geek for hire:
> http://clue4all.net/resume
>
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