Jochen Kunz said:
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 09:09:49AM -0500, Dan Wright wrote:
>
> > > You will have trouble building GNU stuff on anything other than Linux,
> > > or at least a x86 / litle endian / 32 bit machine with gcc.
> > That's not true. I've built a significant portion of the GNU stuff on IRIX
> > 6.5.x, Solaris 2.5-2.8, HPUX 10.20 and 11i, and AIX 4.3.2,
> GCC or the "native" compiler of the *ix? (e.g. MIPS Pro on IRIX?)
Native, usually.
>
> I must admit that it is not that bad than my statemant above may
> sound. But I have build a lot of GNU stuff (including lage parts
> GNOME) on my Alpha running Tru64 5.1 with the DEC/Comcrap/HPaq
> C compiler and sometimes it was really nasty.
I used to test new (to me) UNIX computers by getting them to run
Enlightenment. That is a lot of fun ;) the most painful part of the process
is usually not the GNU stuff, but getting a non-broken (i.e., not mangled by
the vendor) version of X installed...
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> tsch??,
> Jochen
>
> Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/
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