From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14897 invoked by alias); 29 Nov 2004 18:10:55 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 14865 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2004 18:10:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO fencepost.gnu.org) (199.232.76.164) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 29 Nov 2004 18:10:51 -0000 Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CYpwg-0008B6-7T for gcc@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:08:18 -0500 Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1CYpyn-00036w-5g for gcc@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:10:31 -0500 Received: from [62.24.231.113] (helo=cenedra.walrond.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1CYpym-00036G-QY for gcc@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:10:29 -0500 Received: from [62.24.231.115] (helo=orac.walrond.org) by cenedra.walrond.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CYpyg-0005Wz-UQ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 18:10:23 +0000 From: Andrew Walrond To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: I am soon to be ... Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 18:35:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 Cc: "Ric Thornborough" , gcc@gnu.org References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200411291810.21822.andrew@walrond.org> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,RCVD_IN_ORBS, REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) X-SW-Source: 2004-11/txt/msg01145.txt.bz2 On Monday 29 Nov 2004 16:09, Ric Thornborough wrote: > ... an unemployed application programmer after 15 years of continuous work. > I want to "tech" myself up a bit for a month or two before interviewing. I > own a very nice Dell desktop at home but it lacks the tools to continue > doing C/C++ on a Solaris platform. I am thinking of purchasing Sun's > Solaris 9 for Intel. I would then want to download a GNU compiler for my > programming efforts. Is the GNU compiler compatible with Solaris for Intel? > Am I on the right track and doing the right thing? > Isn't Solaris 10 a free download for non-commercial use? It has a very narrow HW compatibility list IIRC. But in any case, since Solaris is already on your CV, just install linux. Then everything works, and is nicely supported on this and many other mailing lists :) Andrew