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Re: cross compiling GCC?



> > Hi there, Issa and Ira here...
> > 
> > did anyone ever try cross-compiling gcc on a linux for a Solaris?
> > 
> >  I have here a Solaris 2.5 system, and sources for gcc but no cc... I
> > believe it should be possible to compile gcc/Sloaris on the linux and
> > upload it to recompile GCC again locally... anyone had any experience with
> > that? 
> > 
> > 
> > thanks in advance, I{ra|ssa}

If you cannot determine a way to cross compile gcc,
you can ftp gcc binaries for slowlaris at fozzy.eandm.co.il 
I believe it is in the 'wintertime' directory. 

However, I found that some of the socket code
is broken. Most stuff _does_ compile. It just doesn't
run if it uses networking. Hahahah. You can buy a
real Sun development environment for a coupla thousand
dollars. Hahaha. This gives me a chance to make a small
comparison of slowlaris and linux.

We have an ancient 386 - 25mhz running linux 1.2.1 that has
taken over much of the work that required compiled network
code that the Sun-Slowlaris couldn't do. The linux-386 box
does tacacs security for the cisco router, snmp management, 
generates network traffic reports, even runs a news feed in
its spare time. Hahaha.

But the Sun is a great Status symbol. It impresses the
political delegations that constantly come to inspect
the freenet. They think I must be very important, after
all, I have a Sun on my desk.. Hahahaha

Our Sun _does_ run netscape's commerce WWW server without
complaints. It handles user mail boxes, though the Sun
got blown away when some user decided to send netscape
navigator 3.x to all his friends as an email attachment.
The disk drive filled up. Slowlaris does not take kindly
to this. There was lost mail, and a filesystem repair
job. I haven't had to manually repair a file system since
I started using ext2. I'd almost forgotten what is to
get yelled at by irate users who can't find thier email..
Hahahah.

Now, I would NOT say that a 386 runing Linux is better
than a Sun Ultra 1 running Slowlaris. There is a part
of Israel known as "pakeed-stan". In this place it
is sometimes wise to spend the maximum amount of money
to obtain the least amount of performance that will
do. I work in "pakeed-stan". Hahahaha


--randy


  
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