The following compiles Amanda fine for me on Solaris 10 (earlier
Solaris versions required a few more tweaks):

  - create a new amanda build directory and untar the
    amanda distribution into it (this makes sure that config
    from previous compile attempts aren't hanging around)
  - cd to the build directory you created above
  - prepend /usr/sfw/bin to your path so that the environment
    looks there first (this directory is part of the Solaris
    10 distribution and contains gmake, gcc, etc.). For
    example, use "setenv PATH /opt/sfw/bin:$PATH" in csh, or
    "export PATH=/opt/sfw/bin:$PATH" in ksh or bash
  - configure --with-user=amanda --with-group=amanda (change
    user and group here appropriately for your system)
  - make sure that configure picks up the gcc compiler
    rather than the Sun Studio compiler in the step above
  - gmake 

The Sun Studio compilers are much better than gcc in terms of
performance, but some of the Amanda code seems to use gcc specific
constructs so you're stuck with it.

The GNU make (gmake on Solaris) is far superior to Sun's (very old)
version and many things just seem to work better if you use it.

Sean


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>Greetings...
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>I am trying to ./configure and make Amanda 2.5.2p1 on a Sun Solaris 10
>sparc machine I'm a solaris noob.
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>I read the manual on
>http://www.amanda.org/docs/systemnotes.html#id323498 which advised me to
>add /usr/ccs/bin to the path, which I did; and the ./configure works
>fine with my parameters. BUT... when I try to >make, I get the following
>error. I googled it a bunch and saw it mentioned a LOT for people trying
>to make other things as well... but nothing that was useful to me.
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>Any help or hints are appreciated. -wab
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