[ic] Help on on a solaris 8 box

[Victor Nolton]

install perl 5.6.1 and all your troubles will go away. I had 
numberous problems with solaris 8 trying to do cpan. Couldn't even 
get md5 to compile till I upgraded.


Ven



>Thank.. Iam self admin the box. I have build a solaris 8 box and am trying
>to figure it out. As for installing interchange, I have had no problem
>installing it on FreeBSD server, but on a Solaris 8 box I have had many
>problems. I guess that BSD self install all of the necessary files and
>programs that is need to install interchanges.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: interchange-users-admin@developer.akopia.com
>[mailto:interchange-users-admin@developer.akopia.com]On Behalf Of Chris
>Rapier
>Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 12:56 PM
>To: interchange-users@developer.akopia.com
>Subject: Re: [ic] Help on on a solaris 8 box
>
>
>
>
>Larry Caragay wrote:
>>
>>  make-3.78.1-sol8-intel-local.gz
>>  Is this the right make??
>>
>>  Also how do I add it to my directory path??? Is that in the program
>>  interchange or is that in a eg. /usr/bin???
>>
>>  Thanks in advance..
>
>'make' is a program used to compile c programs (amoung other things) in
>an automated fashion. If you do not have make you likely do not have a c
>compiler. If you do not have a c compiler you can't compile the link
>programs that sit in your cgi-bin directory. While binary distributions
>probably exist my feeling is that you'll want to make sure you have a c
>compiler - otherwise many of those modules are going to be useless as
>they have c components to them.
>
>If this is your personally administered Solaris 8 box you'll need to
>learn how to do some sysadmin work. This forum probably isn't the right
>place to learn it though. If you are using a box administered by someone
>else you will want to contact them and make sure you can compile c
>programs and locally install perl modules from your account. If you can
>then you'll need to make sure they help you set your environment
>correctly.
>
>If you are simply interested in having a store and don't plan on doing
>minivend consulting then you might want to find an ISP that already
>supports minivend/interchange.
>
>Chris
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