Known issues
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You must install the binutils, gcc, and make packages. You can find out how to get these at sunfreeware.com.
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Making the documentation requires that you install latex and dvips, which are available in the tetex package. It also requires htmldoc, for which we haven't yet tracked down a package.
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Bootstrapping is so slow as to be impractical (many hours on a 500MHz UltraSparc). For this reason, we strongly recommend building with a Linux to Solaris cross compiler.