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In a previous article, simon@lia.di.epfl.ch (Simon Leinen) says:

>In article <bcrawfor.732588447@sol.UVic.CA> bcrawfor@sol.UVic.CA
>(Bryan Crawford) writes:
>
>   I am trying to get GCC running on a sparc-classic with solaris 2.1;
>   I have the gcc-solaris.... and gzip-solaris... files from prep.ai,
>   but gcc asks for 'as' when tring to compile. It seems that gcc
>   wants to use the SUN assembler, which, unfortunately, doesn't come
>   with solaris 2.1 :-(
>
>Yes it does, but you have to install the corresponding package
>("SUNWbtool").  This also contains other useful tools like make, ar,
>yacc etc.

We had been using acc, Sun's ANSI C compiler with Solaris 1.3.  We had
something like a 10 user liscence (exactly what only known to whoever
placed the order).  When we upgraded to Solaris 2.1, we were rather
annoyed to find that we only had a 1 user liscence, and if another user
tried to compile, the request was "queued".  Not a very good queue. In
fact, it would only release control to another user on 15 minute
intervals.  We sent nasty phone calls to Sun asking what was going on.

Their reply:  "Oh, just use gcc.  It's free."


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