Hi all,

Uncertain to post here or in the newbie forum, but this is regarding a new OpenSolaris 2009.06 installation. This is a test machine for my own learning on a corporate network. Package Manager is not able to connect through the proxy, so I am trying to install GCC from the downloaded tar.

I also figured that installing it from the terminal console I may also learn something besides clicking on a GUI. I've already learnt something new by getting the NIC to work from downloaded drivers.

Anyway, this is my question. When running configure from the gcc source, I receive "No acceptable C compiler found in $PATH". As I understand it, there is no C compiler native in OpenSolaris, which is why I want to install GCC in the first place. How can I work around this?

Many thanks

First, I do not use Solaris, so if this discussion gets any more complex than it is already I will step aside and let someone more experienced take over.

Now.. This situation happens on Linux too, and/or I suppose pretty much any OS that needs to compile something (such as a compiler - very inconvenient) and does not yet have a compiler. The catch-22: need a compiler to compile the compiler.

There is no workaround for needing a compiler but not having one. The solution is to install one in binary format (already compiled) and use that to then compile your next item. However, you've already stated that your package manager cannot connect, so you're kinda stuck unless you have installation media which contains a compiler.

A brief Google search turned up this several-year-old item: http://blog.hashbang0.com/2008/05/19...n-opensolaris/

Now.. You've stated that the package manager cannot connect through the proxy -- but what about regular browsing & downloading? Does that work through the proxy? If so, you may like this page here: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/...ng_opensolaris which seems to detail installing the compiler & related tools from a downloaded bzip2 archive. If that's the tar file you have already got, then those instructions look like they're what you need. Scroll down that page to the section "Install the Compiler and Other Tools"

I hope this helps!

Thanks for the quick response.

I had also found that same link during research, but the problem I had was to install the SUNWgcc package, it needed to download the package from the online repository. I can browse to it through Firefox, but Package Manager returns URLError, reason: (8, 'node name or service name not known').

Thanks for the second link also. Seems like I'm having issues getting the SunStudio tar files though due to licensing There is a lot of info in there to chew on

The TAR file I already have is gcc-4.5.1.tar.gz

You can use the packaging commands through a proxy this way:
Alternatively, you can download the whole 2009.06 repository and install locally from it. It is available here (warning: it's a 7.2 GB file):
http://genunix.org/distributions/ind...-0906-full.iso

Thank you for that link. It seems as if I will need the gcc-dev package, and I still have not had any success with getting Package Manager through the proxy. I had already tried the above commands, with and without username/password verification, but still can't get it through.

I will download the repository iso and install the required packages from that. There does not seem to be any source available to download individual packages as required and save them for offline installation.

Funnily enough, that's my blog post!
I hate the fact that gcc (or similar) doesn't come with OpenSolaris.

Setting up your own local repo should do the trick, but be careful if you have a web server running on your installation as the repo manager also runs a web server and things can easily go pear shaped! Either install it into a separate zone or on a separate machine