Hi guys, I set up Intel Solaris 8 but the gcc compiler doesn't work. I have downloaded the gcc compiler from Unix freeware and use pkgadd and it seems to be Ok but ... I now need to set the PATH. I login a root user and want to set the path, can someone please shows me how to edit the PATH... Which file should I edit and put in the PATH I want. Many many thanks. chis

You don't need to put it in a file: PATH=/usr/bin:/xxx/xxx will work for the session. If you want your own session to have an additional PATH, the edit the .profile file in your home directory, I added this line to mine: PATH=$HOME/bin:$HOME:$PATH To find out what the new PATH looks like, type: $ echo $PATH And you will get an output like: /export/home/richard/bin:/export/home/richard:/export/home/richard/bin:/export/home/richard:/usr/bin::/usr/dt/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/bin:/usr/ucb

Thanks Richards, But I login as a ROOT user how can I use .profile file? I tried to look for the .profile before and I could not find it. Do I need to login as a ROOT user? Because I want to compile MySQL and PHP using gcc. I read the MySQL document and it said I need a ROOT user to compile and install it. Any more help will be greatful. Thanks Richard and forum host and users. Chis.

You probably need to write a file named .profile. Look for .dtprofile in the ROOT user home directory and view that. There's a lot of information in there that will help. I don't usually recomment doing any work logged in as ROOT - better to log in as your user ID, then su to root as and if you need to. Safer that way!

You can also make changes to PATH in /etc/profile -- this file is run before the .profile of anyone that logs in. A word of caution: Putting $HOME first in PATH reduces the security of your machine -- if someone is able to get into your $HOME directory, they will be able to put executables in your directory that you will run without knowing that you're running them. For instance, I could write a new version of "ls" that will somehow damage your system (such as "rm -r *"), put it in your $HOME, and then, next time you run "ls", you will erase everything in your $HOME directory instead of listing contents of a directory. It's a good idea not to put $HOME anywhere in PATH. Hope this helps!

Thank you Richard and Jo for your input. I will try it latter. Thanks. Chis

PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/gnome-1.4/bin:/usr/ccs/bin LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gnome-1.4/lib export LOGNAME PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH I had to change my path in /etc/profile to that to get gcc to work properly. Plus you might need autoconf/m4 and make installed also. The LD_library is for the GTK libraries. I switched out Gnome (beta) for CDE. So now I can just compile gaim or xchat or whatever else you want.