Re: compiling very new gnu software on a very old machine

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" From: Mike Pepe <[email protected]>
" 
" Hi folks,
" 
" Just out of curiosity, I'm trying to compile some new gnu utilities on 
" my very old 3/80 machine. 
" []
" 
" Machine is a Sun 3/80, 64MB ram, running SunOS 4.1.1U1
" 
" I have GCC 3.2.3 installed from a pre-built package.
" 
" So far I've gotten bash 3.2.0 and grep 2.5.1 built, but a bunch of 
" others (coreutils, binutils, texinfo, make, etc.) won't build. And yes, 
" some won't build because of dependency issues...
" 
" 
" []
" ../libiberty/argv.c:320: warning: implicit declaration of function `fputc'
" []
" ../libiberty/argv.c:406: warning: implicit declaration of function `fseek'
" []
" ../libiberty/argv.c:414: warning: implicit declaration of function `fread'
" ../libiberty/argv.c:431: warning: implicit declaration of function `fputs'
" ../libiberty/argv.c:444: warning: implicit declaration of function `memmove'
" ../libiberty/argv.c:446: warning: implicit declaration of function `memcpy'
" ../libiberty/argv.c:460: warning: implicit declaration of function `fclose'

hmmm...  these are all defined in stdio.h or string.h.  i can scarcely
imagine the gnu pkgs are so lame they don't routinely include those...

i wonder if configure expects a posix-ish [sV-ish] system -- perhaps
putting /usr/5bin ahead of /usr/bin and/or /usr/ucb in your PATH is in
order.  /usr/5lib?  /usr/5include?  been a long time since i played
with sunos4...  i do recall it's basically berkeley unix with att
stuff grafted in.
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