> I even downloaded a "gnumake" file, but it was a .gz extension file. I obviously
>have no way of using that if my gzip is not installed. Somehow, I need to get gzip
>to work on my solaris, but I am stalled at this moment with this problem, if you can
>help me in anyway, I would be more than appreciative. Please email me if you have a
>solution, and even if you do not have one just let me know that you couldnt solve it
>for confirmation purposes. If you can call me, that would be even better, my number
>is 610-992-8743. Please reply at your convenience.....
>
You'll want to try www.sunfreeware.com.
They have many prebuilt binaries for lots of gnu software. You'll need
some of these in order to bootstrap a gnu development environment.
(I believe there are binaries of gcc there also...)
-eric