About binutils
807557Feb 4 2005 — edited Feb 4 2005Hello,
It's a good thing Solaris 10 comes bundled with gcc and binutils.
One thing that's not mentioned (and I think it should be) is the commands in binutils have different names than on Linux - standard names are prefixed with the letter "g" (from GNU I presume).
Thus, nm is gnm, as is gas and so on.
The problem is that when you run "./configure" as part of the standard procedure of compiling a source package the script may fail because it looks for nm,as and it reports it can't find them.
Of course it's simple to create symbolic links with the right names, but someone just coming to Solaris may not realize this is the problem. It should be very easy for someone new to Solaris to build open source packages
Maybe as part of the binutils package install, a descriptive message should be displayed; a script could also be provided to conveniently create symlinks with the appropriate names, if the user wants so.
Vlad.