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- From: jrozes@gumbo.tcs.tufts.edu (Jonathan Rozes)
- Newsgroups: gnu.g++.help,comp.lang.c++,comp.sys.sgi.apps,comp.sys.sgi.misc
- Subject: Re: SGI and C++
- Date: 12 Feb 1996 16:54:06 GMT
- Organization: Tufts University
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- In article <4fnoka$d1n@garuda.csulb.edu>,
- black@csulb.edu (Matthew Black) writes:
- >In article <4ffu78$b2j@cnn.Princeton.EDU>, tim@franck says...
-
- >Are you referring to installing a previously compiled GCC binary? I found
- >PERL far easier to build from source than GCC. Of all the software I've
- >built from source, PINE was the easiest...it required a single step.
-
- Blech. Try to build pine with any options other than ones they've
- decided are best for you and you'll be editting files all day long.
- Optimizing the code so it runs reasonably well takes another week.
-
- >GCC took several attempts and many steps...or am I missing something not
- >mentioned in the GCC documentation?
-
- As long as you aren't building on an unsupported platform, or building a
- cross-compiler, you can just do:
-
- ./configure [config-options]
- make bootstrap
- make install
-
- jonathan
- --
- +++ Jonathan Rozes, Unix Systems Administrator, Tufts University
- ++ jrozes@tcs.tufts.edu, http://gumbo.tcs.tufts.edu/~jrozes/
- + Ultimately, thinking is a very inefficient method of processing
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