Re: gpc almost complied - now what?

Ernst-Ludwig Bohnen wrote:

• When trying the installation on Sun Solaris 7 and 8 I run into similar problems as you report. Then, after reinstalling some gnu-tools (make-3.79, sed-3.02, grep-2.5 and patch-2.5) install.gpc worked fine without problems. I can't exactly say which one of the tools brought the breakthrough. The week point of the script is checking the right prerequisites and, if necessary, give some advice what to do.

GNU make is definitely required. No way without it.

GNU sed (or another non-crippled sed, unlike Solaris's native sed) is required for some non-critical things (like extracting docdemos), but the basic build should work without it.

GNU grep and patch *should* not be required (of course, there may always be bugs, like the one in the diff, reported by Adam, which still worked under GNU patch, but such bugs should be fixed rather than requiring these tools).

So if you can track it down to a particular tool, and if it's not make (or sed, when there is an explicit error message saying that it wants a better sed), please report it, and I'll try to avoid the dependency.

Frank