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- From: elling@eng.auburn.edu (Richard Elling)
- Subject: Compilers for install (was: Planning to upgrade to Solaris 2?)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.162029.15381@news.duc.auburn.edu>
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- References: <1992Jul22.113847.21418@lut.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 16:20:29 GMT
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- In article 21418@lut.ac.uk, N.Davis@lut.ac.uk () writes:
- >
- >Has anyone noted that some applications are distributed in 'pseudo' source
- >form; they (hush tones!) *compile* segments of code before the application
- >is ready to run. More often than not they use 'cc' to perform the task.
-
- I install large quantities of 3rd party software. Today there are very
- few commercial applications which require compilers for installation.
- The ones that do generally need a fortran compiler (allude to the f77
- unbundling in 4.0 for all of you old timers :-) because they are written
- in fortran-77 which doesn't handle dynamic memory allocation for arrays
- and such. Many of these installation/compilation scripts are broken and
- have to be reworked by hand anyway.
-
- So if you are an ISV, please try to get away from this unwieldy practice.
- Meanwhile, rest assured that the high volume applications do not require
- compilers for their installation. I think there might be a (admittedly
- weak) correllation between "high volume" and "need compiler to install."
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