Grr! <rant>

Sean picasso@madflower.com
Mon, 19 Feb 2001 23:53:42 -0500 (EST)


They may cost money, the Solaris compile does/did. I used gcc though.
I actually assume most commercial unix distributions charge for a
compiler.

This site has a lot of your favourite ready made freeware. 
http://www-frec.bull.com/docs/download.htm


On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Edward Glowacki wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Paul Melson wrote:
> >      It's a poor mechanic... [j/k]
> > 
> >      That's somewhat unfair since AIX 4.3.x ships with Perl, cc/libc,
> >      and man on the CDs.  Blame the VAR/consultant that set it up that
> >      way.  I've had pretty decent luck with Apache/OpenSSL and SSH on
> >      AIX, although I admit I'm running SSH-2.4.0 from ftp.ssh.fi as
> >      opposed to OpenSSH, and it is a little bit more AIX-friendly (no
> >      need for zlib, plus a Makefile with AIX in mind).
> > 
> > PaulM
> 
> Yeah, when I went to download PERL binaries, CPAN said 4.3.x had
> them already installed.  And yes you can get cc/libc but as I
> understand it, that actually costs money? plus its not part of the
> default install at any rate, same with PERL and man pages.  I can't
> point the finger too far, I sat over the shoulder of the person
> installing it, though I've never done an AIX install before, so I
> wouldn't have known what was included and where to find the additional
> stuff I need.  OpenSSH wasn't bad at all, ./configure, make, make
> install, but the lack of a C compiler handy on the box was the
> problem, which would have also fubar'd SSH 2.4.
> 
> -- 
> Edward Glowacki			glowack2@msu.edu
> Computer Laboratory, Technical Support Services		
> Michigan State University	
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