[Sunhelp] How do you add /usr/ucb to your PATH

[Kevin Stevens]

You want to use the Sun make, which comes with the system, and install  and 
use the gnu gcc compiler, which doesn't; at least it isn't installed by 
default.  Make sure gcc is installed, and that you have a path to it.  Make 
sure that you can type "which gcc" and get a location (wherever you 
installed it, mine is /usr/local/bin/gcc), and type "which make" and get the 
response /usr/ccs/bin/make.  If you don't get both of them found, you need 
to fiddle with paths until you do.

Now you're ready to run ./configure, which should happily locate gcc and 
proceed from there.

KeS


>From: "Glover, Duke" <duke.glover at verizon.com>
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>To: Greg <gonufer at yahoo.com>
>CC: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>Subject: RE: [Sunhelp] How do you add /usr/ucb to your PATH
>Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 10:40:12 -0500
>
>Thank you for your response.  I realized after I sent the Email that I left
>out a lot of pertinent information.  As I'm sure you can tell I am new to
>this OS.  My reason for wanting to do this is as follows:  I am trying to
>install an application and the INSTALL file tells me I need to run
>./configure.  Well, when I do this it tells me  "checking for gcc... no"
>
>"checking for cc... no"
>
>"configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH"
>
>So I did a find / -name cc -print and found cc in /usr/ucb.  My assumption
>(I know what assuming does) was that the ./configure command can't find cc
>because it's not in the PATH and therefore I need to add it to the PATH.
>What am I doing wrong ?
>
>AtDhVaAnNkCsE,
>
>Duke Glover
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Greg [mailto:gonufer at yahoo.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 11:37 PM
>To: Glover, Duke
>Subject: Re: [Sunhelp] How do you add /usr/ucb to your PATH
>
>
> > I need to add /usr/ucb to my PATH.  How can I do this ?
>
>You should _never_ add /usr/ucb to your PATH.  That directory only
>contains deprecated commands intended to be used by Solaris 1.x
>programs running on Solaris 2.x in the compatability environment.
>If you accidentally use /usr/ucb/cc or /usr/ucb/ld when compiling
>programs you can end up with buggy executables.  Are you _sure_
>you want to do that?
>
>-greg
>
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