[Orca-users] Installation Problems on Solaris 8

[Peter Shattuck]

You will need to go into the Configure file and change KPIC to fpic ... also 
use gmake not the make that comes with Solaris.

Peter Shattuck

>From: David Michaels <dragon at raytheon.com>
>To: UnixAdmin <sunixadm at yahoo.com>
>CC: orca-users at orcaware.com
>Subject: Re: [Orca-users] Installation Problems on Solaris 8
>Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 14:45:14 -0600
>
>There was a thread on this around 4/2/2005.  I believe the following steps 
>will fix your problem:
>
>   1. set path=({path to gcc} $path)
>      or for sh-style shells:  PATH={path to gcc}:$PATH  ;  export PATH
>   2. cd {path to gcc}
>      ln -s gcc cc
>   3. setenv CC=gcc
>      or for ksh/sh:  CC=gcc ; export CC
>   4. Follow the build instructions
>
>Hope this helps!
>
>--Dragon
>
>
>UnixAdmin wrote:
>
>>Hello everyone,
>>  I'm trying to get Orca up and running on Solaris 8 but keep running into 
>>problems.  I've read many postings in the archives and was able to solve 
>>several but not all problems.
>>  make gives me the following errors:
>>cc: unrecognized option `-KPIC'
>>cc: language depend not recognized
>>cc: RRDs.c: linker input file unused since linking not done
>>Running Mkbootstrap for RRDs ()
>>chmod 644 RRDs.bs
>>LD_RUN_PATH="" cc -o blib/arch/auto/RRDs/RRDs.so  -G RRDs.o 
>>-L../src/.libs/ -lrrd_private -lm
>>cc: RRDs.o: No such file or directory
>>make[4]: *** [blib/arch/auto/RRDs/RRDs.so] Error 1
>>make[4]: Leaving directory 
>>`/var/tmp/install/orca-0.27b3/packages/rrdtool-1.0.40/perl-shared'
>>make[3]: *** [perl_shared] Error 2
>>make[3]: Leaving directory 
>>`/var/tmp/install/orca-0.27b3/packages/rrdtool-1.0.40'
>>make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>>make[2]: Leaving directory 
>>`/var/tmp/install/orca-0.27b3/packages/rrdtool-1.0.40'
>>make[1]: *** [make_rrdtool] Error 2
>>make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/install/orca-0.27b3/packages'
>>make: *** [all] Error 1
>>  I've also included the config.log as well as the complete output from 
>>make.
>>  Any help is greatly appreciated.
>>  -Joe
>>
>>
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