Michael Hanke wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I had a look at all available informations regarding compilation
> problems. None gave an answer to my question.
> 
> I tried to build KOffice on a Sun Solaris 2.5.1 machine. I am an
> ordinary user with no special rights (and limited disk space). I have
> the following possibilities for choosing the gcc compiler:
> - 2.7.2.3 (my standard compiler because the most reliable one)
> - 2.8.1
> - egcs 1.1.1
> According to the KOffice FAQ, the first variant cannot be used. The
> second version (2.8.1) cannot be used for compiling Qt (according to
> their FAQ: I got a compiler error). According to Qt's homepage, gcc
> 2.7.2 is recommended. mico recommends 2.7.2 again. So I am left with
> egcs 1.1.1. The latter crashes in the assembly stage (probably due to
> large symbols). The workaround from the mico FAQ makes the assembler
> crashing again (now because of an exessively huge .s file). So there
> is *no* possibility to compile the whole system.
> So here are my questions:
> - What can an ordinary user do?
> - Which precompiled binaries are available? Note that I am not
> allowed to install them in other places than my home directory.
> 
> Do you have any suggestions?
> 
Yep - try egcs 1.1.1 using GNU binutils. It's the only solution for
Solaris.

Greetings, Stephan

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