I am attempting to install the Oracle 9i client on my solaris 2.9 box. When the Oracle installer comes to the section where it installs the network configuration assistant, it stops with an error: error invoking targer ntcontab.o of makefile network/lib/ins_net_client.mk I am guessing that the installer uses the above .mk file (and several others) to write a series of files so that connection information can be written to tnsnames.ora and slqnet.ora. There are a few other errors but they all revolve around "make". Oracle insists that make is installed to /usr/ccs/bin. Using the -d option to install make, it installs to /usr/local/bin, which is where I have GCC 3.4.6 and libiconv. I changed the base dir to /usr/ccs/bin in the install script which works, but the oracle installer still cannot use it to make the needed files. I have tried running this as 'root' and as 'oracle' which is the user I created to install the oracle client. I also checked the permissions, and even mod'd them to 777 but nothing works. I also tried setting ccs=GCC but it did not help. I set the path in my /etc/profile for both local and ccs but this did not help either. I also tried installing make with the -R option to force it in to /usr/ccs/bin but it attempted to install to /usr/ccs/bin/usr/local. I then installed it to /usr/local then softlinked /usr/ccs/bin to /usr/local/bin but this did not work either. I checked the oracle support page and it states that you cannot use a soft link, that make must be installed to /usr/ccs/bin. I eventually let the installer install the client and break down on the other part. I then copied tnsnames and sqlnet from the box running the oracle db and it worked. But now the box running the db is down and the guy that admins that box does not have time to fix it. So I want to install my own oracle db on my box but I cannot do it until make is allowing the installer to compile files. Any suggestions? I have scoured google, oracle, oracle forum, sun, etc, but everyone says to softlink or change the base dir... and oracle does not have a fix for this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.