GNU C and GDB for Solaris-2 are available!
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Compiler and GNU Debugger to Sun's Solaris-2 operating system.
Easy-to-install sources and binaries are available now.
The release is available from UUNET Technologies by FTP, uunet uucp, or
900-number uucp. It is also available on tape from Cygnus for $700
with printed documentataion and installation support, or you can get
a tape, manuals, and one year's support for five users for $3000. The
software will also appear on the SunSoft Catalyst CDware (tm) Volume 4
disc, which will be published later this year.
Like all GNU software, there are no restrictions on who can use it,
how many people can use it at a time, what machines it can be run on,
or how many copies you can install, run, give away, or sell.
Some compiler vendors portray GNU software as only useful for casual
users. They claim that you need a proprietary compiler if you are a
"professional developer".
We suggest that professional developers examine our compiler at no cost
-- including its source code. You'll find it a highly professional
product. If you end up depending on it for your critical projects,
Cygnus can offer you highly professional support, too. All software
has bugs, and our commercial-quality support will keep any compiler
troubles from delaying your projects.
The online release is packaged with separate binaries and sources.
Only the binary tar file is required to compile and debug C programs;
it also includes the online documentation. To produce high quality
printed documentation using TeX, you will need the sources.
The following files are available:
-rw-r--r-- 1 86 21 28258 Jul 15 07:24 INSTALL
-rw-r--r-- 1 86 21 12697 Jul 16 20:11 README
-rw-r--r-- 1 86 21 5851617 Jul 16 18:10 cygnus-sol2-1.0.bin.tar.Z
-rw-r--r-- 1 86 21 10573106 Jul 16 18:53 cygnus-sol2-1.0.src.tar.Z
By Anonymous FTP: ftp.uu.net:/packages/cygnus/...
By uucp: uunet!~/packages/cygnus/...
Using +1 900 GOT SRCS: uunet!~/packages/cygnus/...
Any site in the US running UUCP may call uunet at +1 900 GOT SRCS and
use the login "uucp" to retrieve these files. There is no password.
Your phone company will bill you $0.50 per minute for the call.
We expect to offer C++, as well as a release for Solaris-2 on IBM PCs,
later this year.
We have contributed our changes for Solaris-2 support to the Free
Software Foundation, so that the FSF can incorporate them into future
releases as well. We have already released Solaris-2 support in this
week's gdb-4.6 release.
Cygnus Support and FSF are grateful to the forward-looking individuals and
organizations that supported this project:
* Amoco Production Company (Houston, Texas)
* BBN Communications (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
* Boston Technology (Wakefield, Massachusetts)
* Cirrus Logic (Fremont, California)
* Compaq Computer Corporation (Houston, Texas)
* Deere & Company (Moline, Illinois)
* ELF Commnuications (San Francisco, California)
* European Computer-Industry Research Centre GMBH (Munich)
* Fidelity Investments (Boston, Massachusetts)
* FTP Software, Inc. (Wakefield, Massachusetts)
* Gallagher & Robertson (Oslo, Norway)
* GTE Laboratories (Waltham, Massachusetts)
* Ingres Corporation (Alameda, California)
* Inland Sea (Dexter, Michigan)
* Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos, New Mexico)
* Miller/Howard Investures (Cobleskill, New York)
* MIT Lincoln Laboratory (Lexington, Massachusetts)
* NASA Lewis Research Center (Cleveland, Ohio)
* Optimation Software (Melbourne, Australia)
* PFU Limited (Tokyo)
* Philips Laboratories (Briarcliff Manor, New York)
* Pure Software (Los Altos, California)
* Qualix Group, Inc. (San Mateo, California)
* Schlumberger-Doll Research (Ridgefield, Connecticut)
* Kevin Sheehan (Melbourne, Australia and elsewhere)
* State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo
* SunSoft, Inc. (Mountain View, California)
* Technische Universitaet Muenchen (Munich)
* Telecom Finland (Helsinki)
* Telecom Research Labs (Victoria, Australia)
* Union Bank of Switzerland (Zurich)
* University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
* University of Washington (Seattle)
* UUNET Technologies, Inc. (Falls Church, Virginia)
* Warwick University (Coventry, England)
* Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (Palo Alto, California)
We are also grateful to six other organizations and individuals who
contributed to this project, but who prefer to remain anonymous.
The Cygnus Support Solaris-2 development team
(David Vinayak Henkel-Wallace, David Zuhn, Jeffrey Osier, Jim Wilson,
John Gilmore, Ken Raeburn, Mark W. Eichin, Paula Vancini, Roland Pesch,
Steve Wilson, Stu Grossman, and Sun Ming Lieu)
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