Re: solaris make:command not found

[Vesselin Peev]

%%  Paul. D. Smith address@hidden writes:
> %% zyh lucharst <address@hidden> writes:
>
>  zl> I use the solaris10 the first time ,I have an question,when I use
>  zl> the make command,I found the command was not found .and I don't
>  zl> know how to do it .so I want your help !  the error was like
>  zl> following:
>
>  zl> #make
>  zl> bash:make:command not found
>
> Note that this list is about GNU make only.  If you have questions about
> systems like Solaris, you should ask on a Solaris mailing list or
> newsgroup.
>
>
> However, I happen to know that Sun stashes their "make" executable in
> /usr/ccs/bin, so try "/usr/ccs/bin/make".
>
> Note that this is Solaris make, based on SysV make, not GNU make.  Many
> of the features of GNU make will not work at all in Solaris make.
>
> If you want GNU make on Solaris you'll need to download it and build
> it (or you can get prebuilt copies on the web).

Solaris 10 does come with a prebuilt GNU make (gmake) in, as well as a host 
of other GNU tools -- no need for downloading gmake in this case.
And I should have reminded the original poster about the list.

-Vesko