Help with Solaris path problem?

birdy

I'm not quite sure if this is a $PATH problem. I'm currently running Solaris 11 64bit on Virtual Box, I have installed Solaris via text install. Since the install I have installed the following:

gcc-45
lynx
gettext
SDL 1.2 & 2.0

So I have been having this problem by trying to install iceWM 1.3.8. I'm currently trying to run this:

./configure --enable-corefont

But after I run it give's out this error:

configure: error: 'msgfmt' not found. Perhaps you need to install 'gettext'?.

It's strange since I know for a fact the gettext is installed in the /usr/ccs/bin directory.
I have tried to edit the /etc/profile and I put this code in it:

PATH=$PATH:/usr/ccs/bin/gettext

After a restart it still gives me the same error. Is it possible to fix this? Thank you in advance.

calvinb

PATH is for directories; not executables. Put the directory the executable lies in.

BOD

It has been many, many years since I used a configure script but can't you explicitly set the location from that?

birdy

To be honest I'm not sure what I'm doing. Thank you for clarifying the PATH situation ampharos. I have since changed the profile in /etc/ to

PATH=$PATH:/usr/ccs/bin gettext

After a restart of the system the ./configure file gives me the same error.
EDIT As I was looking over the error I noticed that before the error, the ./configure file was checking for the following:

checking for bindtextdomain... yes
checking for xgettext... no
checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge
checking for msgfmt... no

I'm guessing that when I installed gettext, those following files were not installed. Is there any place I can get these files? Is there a tar package that I can install?

calvinb

It should be included with gettext. Check if they're present, or search for packages.

TCPMeta

Now there is a 3rd party package manager for Solaris.
http://www.opencsw.org/
Works like apt-get.

BOD

Solaris has it's own package system, too.

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/ht ... gihhp.html