On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 03:55:51PM -0500, Jeffrey A. LeGay wrote: > I am a real newbie to the UNIX world. I am presently trying to get BIND > 9.3.0 installed on an Ultra 5 box with Solaris 9. I am getting an error > about, "compiler cannot create executables". From what I am reading it > sounds like I need a compiler installed on Solaris. I downloaded > gcc_small-3.4.2-sol9-sparc-local.gz and unzipped it. I now have an > executable named gcc_smal and I don't know what to do with it. I will > appreciate any advice on where to go from here! Hi, at first, I think this is a bit off topic here, since you're asking how to install software provided by sunfreeware.com and you should have asked there if you didn't understand or just haven't read the instructions. <quote src="http://www.sunfreeware.com/sol26left2.html";> To install a file you have downloaded, follow the example here: For example, if you were to download a gzipped package foo-1.00-sol8-sparc-local.gz into directory /tmp, to install this package, you would use the following commands: cd /tmp gunzip foo-1.00-sol8-sparc-local.gz pkgadd -d foo-1.00-sol8-sparc-local The pkgadd command must be run as root. Do NOT put a ., ./, or the directory name in front of the file name in pkgadd! </quote> Also make sure that you read the comments on the GCC 3.4.2 package here: http://www.sunfreeware.com/gcc.html Especially the first paragraph: <quote> To use the gcc package from sunfreeware.com you MUST install all of the SUNW deveoper packages that come on Sun's Solaris CDs. </quote> HTH -- Claudio
