Help Installing 'Make'

[trent101]

Hey,

I have just installed Solaris 9 on my sprac box.

I realised I allready have the tar program, so the next thing I did was go and
download gunzip. However when I went to build it I realised
that I dont have the make program.

So I am just wondering how to I install it if I cant use make to build it? If that makes sense.

What I was thinking was there has to be an executable for it, so you dont have to compile.

I found a debian package, which I think may be like an exe but not sure.

I tried to run this but It tells me that its not found.

Any ideas?

Cheers...

 

[mrn]

find / -name make -print

make sure the directory where make was found is in your path

echo $PATH
to view your current path

PATH=$PATH:/make/dir
to add it to your current path

cd
to return to your home dir

vi .profile and add the directory to the path statement

you can also use the whereis command to find the location of programs

whereis make

Mike

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[trent101]

Thanks for the reply.

I have tried what you said but no make program is found.

I couldnt use the whereis comand as it told me it was not found either.

But when I ran the find program no make program was found anywhere.

This is what I thought was the case, as I didnt think Solaris 9 came with make.

So again do I need to download it? And if so where can I dounload an "executable" for it as I cannot not 'make' it without allready having the make program.

Thanks.

 

[KenCunningham]

I assume 'sprac' is Sparc and that this is a Sun box? Download the precompiled version from

http://www.sunfreeware.com.

 

[Annihilannic]

You must have a fairly limited install on this system. On a Solaris 9 system with a typical End-User install make can be found in /usr/ccs/bin. It is part of the SUNWsprot package. Is that installed (pkginfo -l SUNWsprot)? If not, do you have your original installation source (CDs, etc.)? You should be able to locate the package on the CD and install it from there.

Or install the GNU make as Ken suggested.

Annihilannic.

 

[p5wizard]

If it's a binary package for gzip/gunzip for Solaris you're after, try

http://www.sunfreeware.com

.


HTH,

p5wizard