Grass&Solaris:Solution????

[James Darrell McCauley]

"Marilyn Ruiz" (ruiz at thales.geog.ufl.edu) writes on 4 Oct 94:
>I've also had some hesitancy (unfounded?) about using gcc to compile
>GRASS on this machine.  For me, the problem is not with the documentation
>for GRASS compilation, etc.  I could use some reassurance that GRASS
>compiles as smoothly under one compiler as another.  And I see the
>potential problems with installing gcc as more daunting than GRASS.

FWIW, I've found gcc to be a much better compiler than products
produced by SunSoft.  It doesn't take more than one or two
instances of
   bang head against terminal for days looking for bug;
   break down and ask comp.lang.c or similar gurus for help;
only to hear
   oh, looks like you've found bug #n in Sun's cc. Use gcc instead.
This was more true before cc was unbundled.

also FWIW, I've also seen binary distributions of gcc.

>I think overall, it's the issues peripheral to GRASS - Xwindows, 
>compilers, graphics cards, operating systems - that have given
>me the most trouble, not GRASS, itself.

agreed. The alpha machine is a prime example.

>Marilyn Ruiz
>ruiz at thales.geog.ufl.edu

--Darrell