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In article <3l9s82$fdv@csusac.ecs.csus.edu>, taylorj@ecs.ecs.csus.edu 
says...
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>        Maybe I'm just an idiot, but I'm completely stuck in my attempt 
to
>install GNU make.  I'm installing (well, trying to |->) the "basic"  GNU
>stuff (gcc, bash, make, bintools, etc) on a Sparcstation 10 running
>Solaris 2.3.  I've gotten and installed the compiled binaries for gcc
>2.5.6 and gzip, and have the source unpacked for GNU make, which I need 
to
>compile bash (or anything else).  
>        The docs for make say to run 'sh build.sh', but when I do, it
>complains that I don't have as.  I've installed all the packages off the
>Solaris CD-ROM that the docs said I needed to, but the one that the docs
>said would contain as didn't.  I've gotten the source for the binutils
>package which contains as, but in order to compile it I need make, which 
I
>can't compile without as.  Catch-22.
>        I'm stuck at this point until I can find a pre-compiled SPARC as 
>somewhere.  Anyone know where one might be found?  Alternatively, is 
>there something I missed somewhere in the installation of gcc or make or 
>anything else?  Thanks for any help.
>


I had the same problem.   I asked all over the net for someone to make 
a "make" available in binary form.  In the end I downloaded
the binaries from prep.ai.mit.edu which had an incomplete help file
in them.   These explained that there are some extra packages you must
install to get a "make, as, ld" and such.   Unfortunatly the readme was
out of date and the packages weren't where they were supposed to be
on the CD.   The are there though.  I am sorry that I can't remember 
where I found them but it was something like "programming support 
utilities".  I have since deleted it all as I have made the a complete
GNU system the default system.

Good Luck,
Kris