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...
- Dan Wright
(dtwright(a)uiuc.edu)
(
http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
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