On Jun 18, 22:32, Roger Merchberger wrote:
> Subject: OT: Included Development Tools
> Rumor has it that Tony Duell may have mentioned these words:
>
> >For the unices mentioned earlier, I believe that cc, an assembler, etc
> >were _not_ included with the OS. So there is no way of writing programs
> >with the software as supplied.
>
> Dunno about the others that were mentioned, but Solaris (in every form
that
> I dealt with, anyway...) did include cc, plus perl, tcl/tk, I think
Python,
> and maybe some others.
>
> Now... the libraries that were included with Solaris were lame at best,
and
> it is tough to get 3rd party programs to compile with the included cc (a
> quick upgrade to gcc fixes that...) but it was included, and was enough
to
> write C & perl programs out of the box.
IIRC that isn't ANSI C, and certainly isn't intended for development work.
Sun sell a development compiler separately, and it's *not* cheap.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Sat Jun 19 1999 - 06:06:04 BST