🚀 go-pugleaf

Let me point out first that I haven't read all the manuals, I haven't
read this newgroup but once, and I post news very seldom. I prefer to
skim the INSTALL and guess first, then read manuals while the build
runs, or preferably never if the guessing works. I have found this
approach to work well with most GNU software, except...

Hosts: SUN 4/490 servers with ELC's, Sparc-2, 10, etc.
OS: sunos4.1.1

I am trying to install gcc, etc. on our SUN network so everyone can use
it instead of just me, and also so that any maintainer can install an
upgrade to a new version without disturbing anyone else that wants to
keep using the old one.

I am not a sysadm, just an user. I have been given write privileges in
our /utilities/gnu release directory, but I cannot "su root". 

First catch, I want the directory structure to look like this:

/utilities---gnu--+--- gcc-2.3.3
                  |
                  +--- gcc-2.4 (someday)
                  |
                  +--- make-whatever and so forth

I want the stuff under /utilities/gnu to pretty much mirror what I see
on prep.ai.mit.edu /pub/gnu.

I can't use /usr/local/bin, etc. because that allows me to use only one
version at a time. With many potential users, I can't change revs at
random. It would also violate the security policy.

The first thing I tried was to install stuff in the source directory,
e.g. - I built /utilities/gnu/gcc-2.3.3 with
--prefix=/utilities/gnu/gcc-2.3.3, with the following results:

the release:
	/utilities/gnu/gcc-2.3.3/*.c, etc.
	/utilities/gnu/gcc-2.3.3/config

the results:
	/utilities/gnu/gcc-2.3.3/bin
	/utilities/gnu/gcc-2.3.3/lib
	/utilities/gnu/gcc-2.3.3/include --- and so on

I then created links from my private ~/bin to the released binaries,
and used the new compiler: "gcc -o hello hello.c". This much works.

When I tried to compile some C++ (which uses only C library calls) I
get lots of error mesages which appear to be ANSI violations. I
figured, Aha, I'm using SUN's sick include files, let's go install
glibc...

Next, I find that in order to proceed, I need to install prerequisites
make, binutils, and gas. No problems installing them using the same
strategy.

Next steps:
	#fetch glibc, then
	tar xvf glibc-1.05.1
	cd glibc-1.05.1
	configure sun4
	make
	
First problem, it won't build in /utilities/gnu/glibc-1.05.1 - it can't
find /utilities/gnu/glibc-1.05.1/sun4, 

After a lot of horsing around I find that I can get it to go further if I do
the following:

	#fetch glibc, then
	tar xvf glibc-1.05.1
	cd glibc-1.05.1
	mkdir src
	mv * src
	mkdir sun4
	cd sun4
	../src/configure --prefix=/utilities/gnu/glibc-1.05.1 \
		--exec_prefix=/utilities/gnu/glibc-1.05.1 \
		--with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld sun4
	make

Next problem: can't mkdir /utilities/gnu/glibc-1.05.1/sun4/sys/
                                                              ^ huh?

I do the mkdir by hand (or did I edit the Makefile?) and type make again.

From here, almost any way I turn I run into a brick wall:

	unknown pseudo-op `.app'
	zic core dumps
	include files can't be found
	mk-stdiolim has no execute privilege
	and so on

I'm confused. I have tried it a lot of different ways for about a week.
(No, not full-time, I've got lots of other things to do :-) I haven't
kept track of all the bugs. It shouldn't be this hard, so I figure I
have either taken a wrong turn somewhere, or I am trying to do
something that hasn't been tried before.

Help!


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