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#1 (**permalink**) 01-12-2008, 05:13 AM

Hi,

I'm running Solaris 8 on an Ultra 5, where I have root access. I'm
trying to install some software on it (more precisely an open-source
project) and I'm bumping into some problems.

One of them is, I need GNU MAKE to compile this software (won't work
with make, it needs gmake). No problem, I got the latest version from
www.sunfreeware.com and installed it without any problems.

The problem is, when I use "gmake" I get the following message:

gmake: not found

and this although I have added the /usr/local/bin to my PATH.

I'm freshly out of SW Engineering school (getting my degree), so my
UNIX experience isn't that great (but I'm learning ;-))

I hope someone can help me out with what I am sure is actually a dumb
newbie question... ;-) but I didn't find any other infos otherwise.

TIA,
Marianne

#2 (**permalink**) 01-12-2008, 05:13 AM

Is gmake really in /usr/loca/bin and did you remember to export the
PATH

Marianne Cornila wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm running Solaris 8 on an Ultra 5, where I have root access. I'm
> trying to install some software on it (more precisely an open-source
> project) and I'm bumping into some problems.
>
> One of them is, I need GNU MAKE to compile this software (won't work
> with make, it needs gmake). No problem, I got the latest version from
> www.sunfreeware.com and installed it without any problems.
>
> The problem is, when I use "gmake" I get the following message:
>
> gmake: not found
>
> and this although I have added the /usr/local/bin to my PATH.
>
> I'm freshly out of SW Engineering school (getting my degree), so my
> UNIX experience isn't that great (but I'm learning ;-))
>
> I hope someone can help me out with what I am sure is actually a dumb
> newbie question... ;-) but I didn't find any other infos otherwise.
>
> TIA,
> Marianne

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#3 (**permalink**) 01-12-2008, 05:13 AM

Marianne Cornila wrote:
>
> I'm running Solaris 8 on an Ultra 5, where I have root access.
....
> The problem is, when I use "gmake" I get the following message:
>
> gmake: not found
>
> and this although I have added the /usr/local/bin to my PATH.

Post the output of "echo $PATH".

> I'm freshly out of SW Engineering school (getting my degree), so my
> UNIX experience isn't that great (but I'm learning ;-))

Yet you have root access?

-am © 2003

#4 (**permalink**) 01-12-2008, 05:13 AM

>> On 28 Jul 2003 02:14:20 -0700,
>> marianne.cornila@swisscom.com (Marianne Cornila) said:

> One of them is, I need GNU MAKE to compile this software
> (won't work with make, it needs gmake). No problem, I
> got the latest version from www.sunfreeware.com and
> installed it without any problems.

> The problem is, when I use "gmake" I get the following
> message:

> gmake: not found

> and this although I have added the /usr/local/bin to my
> PATH.

Is gmake actually in /usr/local/bin? It should be, but do
an "ls -l" there to make sure. Do "env | grep PATH" to
make sure the PATH variable is exported with the expected
value.

If you're using csh/tcsh as your shell, take a look at
"rehash" in the man page.

hth
t

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