Oracle 8i ver 8.1.7, Sun Solaris ver 8, running on Sun Ent 450.Compiler gcc I'm trying to install typical installation of Oracle, it copies from both CD's and starts installation and then stops prompting with "Error in invoking target nautab.o of makefile /opt/.../lib/ins_nau.mk", telling him to ignore generated many such errors. I looked at InstallActions.log file and here the last entries before it failed ------------------ Calling action unixActions1.7.1.8.0 make installMakePath = /usr/ccs/bin/make installMakeFileName = /opt/oracle/product/8.1.7/network/lib/ins_nau.mk installTarget = nautab.o installArguments = ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle/product/8.1.7,NAU_ADAPTERS="KERBEROS5 IDENTIX SECURID RADIUS ", undoMakeFileName = null undoTarget = null undoArguments = null logFile = /opt/oracle/product/8.1.7/install/make.log Exception thrown from action: make Exception Name: MakefileException Exception String: Error in invoking target nautab.o of makefile /opt/oracle/product/8.1.7/network/lib/ins_nau.mk Exception Severity: 1 Exception handling set to prompt user with options to RETRY IGNORE User choice : Retry Exception thrown from action: make Exception Name: MakefileException Exception String: Error in invoking target nautab.o of makefile /opt/oracle/product/8.1.7/network/lib/ins_nau.mk Exception Severity: 1 ------------------- Also looking at make.log files I found (if [ "assemble" = "oratmp" ] ; then \ /opt/oracle/product/8.1.7/bin/gennfgt > nnfgt.c ;\ /lib/idcpp nnfgt.c oratmp.c ;\ -i oratmp.c -o oratmp.s -f nnfgt.c ;\ /usr/ccs/bin/as -o nnfgt.o oratmp.s ;\ rm -f oratmp.c oratmp.s ;\ rm -f /opt/oracle/product/8.1.7/lib/nnfgt.o ;\ mv nnfgt.o /opt/oracle/product/8.1.7/lib ;\ /usr/ccs/bin/ar rv /opt/oracle/product/8.1.7/lib/libn8.a /opt/oracle/p roduct/8.1.7/lib/nnfgt.o ; fi) (if [ "assemble" = "binary" ] ; then \ /opt/oracle/product/8.1.7/bin/gennfgt > nnfgt.c ;\ TARGET_BINARY_INTERFACE= ;\ export TARGET_BINARY_INTERFACE ;\ cc -c nnfgt.c ;\ ...skipping 15 lines mv: cannot access nautab.o make: *** [nautab.o] Error 2 /usr/ccs/bin/make -f ins_nau.mk nautab.o ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle/product/8.1.7 N AU_ADAPTERS="KERBEROS5 IDENTIX SECURID RADIUS " (if [ "assemble" = "compile" ] ; then \ /opt/oracle/product/8.1.7/bin/genautab "KERBEROS5 IDENTIX SECURID RADIUS " > n autab.s ;\ cc -c nautab.s ;\ rm -f /opt/oracle/product/8.1.7/lib/nautab.o ;\ mv nautab.o /opt/oracle/product/8.1.7/lib ; fi) (if [ "assemble" = "assemble" ] ; then \ /opt/oracle/product/8.1.7/bin/genautab "KERBEROS5 IDENTIX SECURID RADIUS " > n autab.s ;\ /usr/ccs/bin/as -P -o nautab.o nautab.s;\ rm -f /opt/oracle/product/8.1.7/lib/nautab.o ;\ ...skipping 15 lines /usr/ccs/bin/as: internal error: cf_bof(): couldn't execv("/usr/ccs/lib/cpp",... ) mv: cannot access nautab.o make: *** [nautab.o] Error 2 /usr/ccs/bin/make -f ins_nau.mk nautab.o ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle/product/8.1.7 N AU_ADAPTERS="KERBEROS5 IDENTIX SECURID RADIUS " (if [ "assemble" = "compile" ] ; then \ /opt/oracle/product/8.1.7/bin/genautab "KERBEROS5 IDENTIX SECURID RADIUS " > n autab.s ;\ cc -c nautab.s ;\ rm -f /opt/oracle/product/8.1.7/lib/nautab.o ;\ mv nautab.o /opt/oracle/product/8.1.7/lib ; fi) (if [ "assemble" = "assemble" ] ; then \ /opt/oracle/product/8.1.7/bin/genautab "KERBEROS5 IDENTIX SECURID RADIUS " > n autab.s ;\ ...skipping 15 lines rm -f /opt/oracle/product/8.1.7/lib/nautab.o ;\ mv nautab.o /opt/oracle/product/8.1.7/lib ; fi) /usr/ccs/bin/as: internal error: cf_bof(): couldn't execv("/usr/ccs/lib/cpp",... ) mv: cannot access nautab.o make: *** [nautab.o] Error 2 -------------------- I ignored all these errors but the net configuration assistant hangs and so does the apache web server part. Fortunately the database gets created. I tried to do a lot of google but doesn't help much. Any pointers ??

need more information. What is the user that going to install the oracle? Are you setting up oracle home under /opt? Have you created the dba user group?

Oh yes, I did all that, user oracle, groups oinstall and dba, launched thru X-windows etc etc. BTW I got the solution, started with a clean start and deleted everything related to oracle, when going thru the docu I found that Solaris was missing a critical Sun pkg SUNWsprot reqd for Oracle.