Anyone installed 1.3.2 on Solaris?

John van Groningen johnvg@cs.kun.nl
Tue, 2 Mar 1999 17:29:22 +0100


>I ran into some problems with 1.3, so decided to install 1.3.2.
>Once I'd uncompressed and untarred the distribution,
>the instructions seemed to say I just needed to do 'make',
>but pretty well _all_ the 'install' commands fail (yes, I do have
>enough room on the disc) some of them rather comically because
>of spaces in file names.  (E.g. at one point it complains that
>it can't find "Clean" and then that it can't find "Help", when
>what it really wants to do is find "Clean Help".)
>
>Has anyone successfully installed Clean 1.3.2 on a SPARC Solaris 2.6
>system?

There are two incompatible install programs on Solaris 2.6. I didn't know this when I wrote the Makefiles.

When I type install on Solaris, I get install in /usr/ucb, and that version seems to be (nearly) compatible with the install program on the linux systems that I use. This install program should be used to install Clean 1.3.2.

But there is also an install in /sbin. This one can not install Clean 1.3.2, and is the one you are using.

So before installing Clean 1.3.2 on Solaris: remove /sbin from your PATH if /usr/ucb is in your path, or put /usr/ucb in front.

>Of course it serves me right for deleting the old Clean 1.3 first...
>
>The 1.3 README said I could use _either_ OpenLook _or_ Xview.
>I did in fact use OpenLook, albeit with a few problems.
>The 1.3.2 README seems to say that I can _only_ use Xview.
>Is that right?

Yes, the OpenLook version has not been updated. The source is still included.

John van Groningen