[indiana-discuss] Is GCC available for installation?

[Bart Smaalders]

Richard Kowalski wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have only once ever been able to successfully run "# pkg install -v 
> SUNWgcc" and not have the installation fail and that was with 
> OpenSolaris 2008.5 (immediately following the first release). Now that 
> the ips pkg repository is being updated constantly on opensolaris.org I 
> have been unable to install SUNWgcc for some reason. Currently with 
> OpenSolaris 2008.11 snv_98 I am able to install all the dependencies of 
> SUNWgcc but not SUNWgcc itself. Is this package available for 
> installation? If not why? Is there a work around? Is anyone able to 
> install without failure? Which version? What is the FMRI? It has been a 
> major waste of time attempting to install a working package of SUNWgcc 
> so far, let me know if I can contribute to resolving this.
> 
> 
Could you share what happens in terms of stack trace, error message, etc?

- Bart


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