Hi all,

For educational purposes I installed a fresh AIX 4.3.3 on my 7248-100. To
install the latest maintenace package I have to use the gzip command wich is
not on my system. I donwloaded the sources from www.gzip.org but I'm stuck
because the make command is not on my system.

I asume its part of a package on the installation media, but wich one?

Can someone please explain the process of making a source into an
executable? I follow the directions but don't understand how it works.
(Sorry, I'm a Windows 2000 sysop ;-)
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"Jetze Mellema" <stoppen@hotmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Hi all,
>
> For educational purposes I installed a fresh AIX 4.3.3 on my 7248-100. To
> install the latest maintenace package I have to use the gzip command wich
is
> not on my system. I donwloaded the sources from www.gzip.org but I'm stuck
> because the make command is not on my system.
>
> I asume its part of a package on the installation media, but wich one?
>
> Can someone please explain the process of making a source into an
> executable? I follow the directions but don't understand how it works.
> (Sorry, I'm a Windows 2000 sysop ;-)
> --
> Met vriendelijke groet,
>
> Jetze Mellema
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>

Hallo Jetze,

it's not so complicated :-) got to the IBM Linux Toolbox for a start and
download gzip from there:
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/aix/pro.../download.html
A great number of Linux utilities are available there, compiled by IBM and
ready to run with AIX.

HTH,
Andreas

"Jetze Mellema" <stoppen@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<c74q68$i22ib$1@ID-106476.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> For educational purposes I installed a fresh AIX 4.3.3 on my 7248-100. To
> install the latest maintenace package I have to use the gzip command wich is
> not on my system. I donwloaded the sources from www.gzip.org but I'm stuck
> because the make command is not on my system.
>
> I asume its part of a package on the installation media, but wich one?
>
> Can someone please explain the process of making a source into an
> executable? I follow the directions but don't understand how it works.
> (Sorry, I'm a Windows 2000 sysop ;-)

Jetze,

I believe that the gzip make file should have been included with the
source code. Gzip is a C program that must be compiled on your system.
To do this you need the source code and a licensed C compiler. The
make file contains the actual C command that links in all the
libraries that the program needs to run.

However, if you just installed AIX 4.3.3, you may not have the
licensed C compiler installed, so my suggestion would be to download
the AIX executable listed on the gzip website as "RS6000 AIX 4.3.1"
which should work on your AIX 4.3.3 system.

Regards,

Steve
AIX Support Specialist
Invera

Andreas Schulze wrote:
> it's not so complicated :-) got to the IBM Linux Toolbox for a start
> and download gzip from there:
> http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/aix/pro.../download.html
> A great number of Linux utilities are available there, compiled by
> IBM and ready to run with AIX.

Thanks Andreas. That was much easier.
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Steve N. wrote:
> I believe that the gzip make file should have been included with the
> source code. Gzip is a C program that must be compiled on your system.
> To do this you need the source code and a licensed C compiler. The
> make file contains the actual C command that links in all the
> libraries that the program needs to run.

I downloaded the GCC 3.3.0.0 package from the Bull freewaresite and
installed it with smitty install_all. So far so good but sil no make command
on my system so I downloaded GNU make but when I try to compile I discovered
that GCC was missing the as command. Now I try to install GNU Binutils for
as and ld but it needs to be compiled and that is exactly my problem. ;(

Any help?
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