Question

My current project involves writing Perl code inside a Solaris VMWare appliance (hosted on a Mac).

In order to use the CPAN, I need to install a version of ‘make’ inside the VM.

What is the most frugal apprach (disk space and download capacity are limited) to do this?

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EDIT: turns out I have a Solaris 10, after all.
         Timo Geusch’s answer still stands. I’ll report if and how I got it to work, after the fact. Thx Timo

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EDIT: Here’s how I downloaded and installed make:

1. downloaded make-3.81-sol10-x86-local.gz and libgcc-3.4.6-sol10-x86-local.gz from sunfreeware.com.
2. used secure copy to transfer them from OSX to the Solaris VM.
3. logged into the vm as root, cd to /tmp
4. gunzip both files
5. pkgadd -d both extracted files, answered the prompts ..
6. DONE

Thx again Timo.

Answer 1

The sunfreeware site has a prebuilt version of GNU Make 3.81 for Solaris 9 – that is probably your best best.