Solaris

First things first:
Like Don Cragun mentioned, don't you have gsed on your system?
Try which gsed to see if it is there or check if there is /opt/csw/bin/gsed. If so, you could make a symlink from /usr/local/bin/sed to /opt/csw/bin/gsed. A more universal alternative would be to test inside the script if it is in Solaris and then check if gsed is available and use that.

If it is not there are packages on the Solaris companion CD that will install them there.

If you want to compile sed, then you would need to check is gcc is installed on your Solaris system. If so it will probably be in /usr/sfw/bin

If so, follow the instructions in the README file for Solaris. Probably the default is to install in /usr/local (you can check with make -n after you configure). Maybe all you need is go to the directory with the GNU sed source code and

Code:

./configure
make
sudo make install

Hi,

I see make at below location at my system:-

Code:

/usr/ccs/bin/make
/usr/share/lib/make
/usr/xpg4/bin/make

which make can I use?

this is what I have starting with ma in system:-

Code:

mac         mach        magnifier   mail        mailcompat  mailp       mailq       mailstats   mailx       makedev     makeuuid    man

Code:

-bash-3.2$ pwd
/users/sed/sed-4.2.2
-bash-3.2$ ls
ABOUT-NLS       COPYING         INSTALL         NEWS            THANKS          bootstrap       config_h.in     doc             po
AUTHORS         COPYING.DOC     Makefile.am     README          aclocal.m4      bootstrap.conf  configure       lib             sed
BUGS            ChangeLog       Makefile.in     README-alpha    basicdefs.h     build-aux       configure.ac    m4              testsuite

This is what I have in my sed folder.

Please advise.

Did you check the other options first?

Which options?

If gsed is installed, if you can install the SUN/Oracle supplied version from the companion CD, if gcc is installed ...

/usr/ccs/bin/make and /usr/xpg4/bin/make are identical. (/usr/share/lib/make is a directory.)
There might be /usr/sfw/bin/gmake (GNU make).
And /usr/sfw/bin/gcc.
sfw means "Sun Free Ware" but is no longer free.
A similar role plays /opt/csw. The tool /opt/csw/bin/pkg-get can install/update additional packages from the Internet.

And FWIW, if there is a /usr/sfw/bin/gmake, use that instead of /usr/ccs/bin/make. Way too many open source packages rely on GNU extensions to work with older, stricter make versions.