in reply to Solaris and Icons

At the Solaris DOS prompt, type
zcat latest.tar.gz | tar xf - cd perl-* ./Configure make make test make install

In the process, you will be asked a few question, but I guess you'll figure out. Come back to ask any time, preferably in the chatterbox.

--shmem

_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}

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Re^2: Solaris and Icons
by Argel (Prior) on Feb 15, 2007 at 00:13 UTC
    Vanilla Solaris does not come with a compiler. The Software Companion CD/DVD does have gcc on it but that is not guarenteed to be installed and even if it is the PATH likely needs to be updated. For example:
    export PATH="/usr/sfw/bin:/opt/sfw/bin/:$PATH" export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/sfw/lib:/opt/sfw/lib/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
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