Compiling X11R6.8 under Solaris 9

[Gregory Hicks]

Greetings:

I give up.

I recently upgraded an Ultra-1 to Solaris 9 and seem to be forced to
live with CDE (since the other desktops did not install).  I very much
would like to get OpenWindows functionality back and NOT use CDE.
(xearth no longer 'works' under CDE, ...)

I am trying to compile the X11R6.8 release of X, but do not seem to be
able to tell the system that I do not have the Sun compilers installed
(I don't - I have gcc 3.3.1 and/or gcc 3.4.2 installed).  I cannot seem
to be able to get rid of these types of error messages:

make[4]: Leaving directory 
`/home/ghicks/incoming/xc.sun4-solaris2.8/programs/xdm'
make[4]: Entering directory 
`/home/ghicks/incoming/xc.sun4-solaris2.8/programs/xdm/greeter'
make[4]: Leaving directory 
`/home/ghicks/incoming/xc.sun4-solaris2.8/programs/xdm/greeter'
making Makefiles in programs/xdm/config...
make[4]: Entering directory 
`/home/ghicks/incoming/xc.sun4-solaris2.8/programs/xdm'
sh: cc: not found
warning: could not parse version number in output of:
         /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc  -V 2>&1
sh: CC: not found
warning: could not parse version number in output of:
         /opt/SUNWspro/bin/CC  -V 2>&1
make[4]: Leaving directory 
`/home/ghicks/incoming/xc.sun4-solaris2.8/programs/xdm'
make[4]: Entering directory 
`/home/ghicks/incoming/xc.sun4-solaris2.8/programs/xdm/config'
make[4]: Leaving directory 
`/home/ghicks/incoming/xc.sun4-solaris2.8/programs/xdm/config'
make[3]: Leaving directory 
`/home/ghicks/incoming/xc.sun4-solaris2.8/programs/xdm'

Would anyone have any good ideas on what to try?  Or is X11R6.8 only
for X86 boxen?  Most, if not all, the comments in the various .def
files lead me to think that it is...

Unpacking the giant tarball or X11R6.8.0-src1.tar.gz,
X11R6.8.0-src2.tar.gz and X11R6.8.0-src3.tar.gz into xc, making a
'shadow' directory, linking it and then trying "make world" fails.

Assist would be appreciated.  I'm kinda at a loss here...

Thanks!

Regards,
Gregory Hicks

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