Solaris 8 Help - Compiling Supporting Libs

[Gregor Mosheh]

> I'm looking for any resources people might have on successfully compiling
> the supporting MapServer libraries. Proj.4 installed just fine. Compiling
> the GDAL library fails the make with "make: Fatal error: No arguments to
> build". I can see that there is no Makefile only a GNUmakefile. If I try to
> run "make -f GNUmakefile" it errors out in reading the GDALmake.opt at line
> 10. Anyone have success compiling the GDAL library on Solaris?

Solaris is always a pain, since it usually has a combination of both GNU 
and non-GNU utilities. For instance, try using "gmake" to make sure that 
it's using GNU's make rather than Sun's version of make.

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