UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Dear Guys ,

Kindly note that i have sun solaries 8 intel machine .
i installed apache and it is working fine .

i am installing perl5 , MD5 and CGI .
but whenever i execute the commands , make , make test and make install i get error message : not found

# make
make: not found

also i want to ask what does this mean "If you do install this perl and want to use it rather than the Sun one, you will need to have /usr/local/bin in your PATH before /usr/bin " ???

koz i installed perl in my home directory and tried to set it up from my home DIR. is this correct ?? or i should install in in /usr/local/bin ??

Thanks so much

Means program 'make ' is not in your PATH or not available on your system (i doubt it. check /usr/ccs/bin). When you type command 'make' in shell prompt it looks for file named 'make' in directories mentioned in PATH environment variable. If there is no file named 'make' in these directory it returns above mentioned error.

To see your PATH setting, use command (in sh):
echo $PATH
or
printenv PATH

To fix this problem, first find out where program 'make' is located. Try commands like:

which make
whereis make
locate make

Once you figure out where program make is installed add this directory to PATH (I use example directory /usr/ccs/bin)

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/ccs/bin/make
or alternatively you can execute program typing absolute path.
ie: /usr/ccs/bin/make

Means if you want to use newly installed perl (by defualt which will be installed in /usr/local/bin) instead of using one shipped with solaris (which is installed in /usr/bin) modify PATH variable to set /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin
$echo $PATH
/bin:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin

$ export PATH=/bin:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin
$echo $PATH
/bin:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin

$perl -V
This should give infomation about newly installed perl.

You can also set a symlink from /usr/bin/perl to /usr/local/bin/perl
man ln for more details

You can install wherever you want if you know what you are doing . If you want to install perl in your home directory pass appropriate parameters to ./configure script (./configure --help or read INSTALL doc) and change PATH env.

Means program 'make ' is not in your PATH or not available on your system (i doubt it. check /usr/ccs/bin). When you type command 'make' in shell prompt it looks for file named 'make' in directories mentioned in PATH environment variable. If there is no file named 'make' in these directory it returns above mentioned error.

To see your PATH setting, use command (in sh):
echo $PATH
or
printenv PATH

To fix this problem, first find out where program 'make' is located. Try commands like:

which make
whereis make
locate make

Once you figure out where program make is installed add this directory to PATH (I use example directory /usr/ccs/bin)

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/ccs/bin/make
or alternatively you can execute program typing abs