%% "Johnson Joseph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
jj> My name is Joel Joseph and I am a researcher at InfoValley
jj> Incorporation. I am presently having trouble with installing gzip
jj> on my Solaris 7 (x86) platform. I am installing gzip on my
jj> Solaris 7 because I need to gunzip a "gcc" package, which I
jj> downloaded. I was told by other resources that I need to download
jj> alot of gnu software, so I started off with gzip because alot of
jj> things that I download are primarily in a " .gz " extension.
First, you will need a C compiler before you can compile anything, and
Solaris doesn't have one. You can't compile GCC (GNU's C compiler)
without a C compiler, so you're stuck.
As someone else pointed out, you should visit
http://www.sunfreeware.com/ and download all the software you need. You
can get almost the GNU tools precompiled. If you want to compile them
yourself, you'll need at least the gzip and GCC binaries in order to
bootstrap yourself; you can rebuild those from source using the
downloaded binaries if you want to.
jj> I downloaded a tarred ( .tar ) version of gzip off of an ftp site.
jj> I then moved that file to a directly called "gzip" in my root ( /
jj> ) directory. I untarred the file successfully, and I then
jj> followed the instructions in the "INSTALL" text file and I ran the
jj> configure option ( ./configure ) . When I typed this, other files
jj> such as a Makefile and Makefile.in were created. At this point, I
jj> have no idea of what to do. The instructions then ask me to run
jj> the "make install" command. However, the computer will not let me
jj> run the "make" command,
On Solaris, make (and other developer tools, but no C compiler) are in
/usr/ccs/bin. Add that to your PATH and you will be able to run make
(or, use the full path "/usr/ccs/bin/make").
Don't know why Sun insists on putting these things in obscure places,
but they do.
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