GNU utils on Solaris 8

[jrv at vanzandt.mv.com (James R. Van Zandt)]

David Allan <dave at dpallan.com> wrote:
>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. 

Another option, for individual executables like this, is to get a binutils
.deb file, e.g.
    dists/unstable/main/binary-sparc/devel/binutils_2.9.5.0.37-1.deb
or
    pool/main/b/binutils/binutils_2.11.90.0.7-2_sparc.deb
from some Debian mirror and unpack it by hand.  You'll have to do this
on some other machine though.  If you don't have a Debian system
(i.e. you don't have dpkg running) then you need a working ar to
unpack the .deb file.

You will need the right version of the libc shared library installed,
of course.

		- Jim Van Zandt
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