title: How to get "make" for Solaris 10
body: <p>My current project involves writing Perl code inside a Solaris VMWare appliance (hosted on a Mac).</p>
  
  <p>In order to use the CPAN, I need to install a version of "make" inside the VM.</p>
  
  <p>What is the most frugal apprach (disk space and download capacity are limited) to do this?</p>
  
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  <p><strong>EDIT:</strong> turns out I have a Solaris 10, after all.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Timo Geusch's answer still stands. I'll report if and how I got it to work, after the fact. Thx Timo</p>
  
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  <p><strong>EDIT:</strong> 
  Here's how I downloaded and installed make:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>downloaded <a href="ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/intel/10/make-3.81-sol10-x86-local.gz" rel="nofollow noreferrer">make-3.81-sol10-x86-local.gz</a> and <a href="ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/intel/10/libgcc-3.4.6-sol10-x86-local.gz" rel="nofollow noreferrer">libgcc-3.4.6-sol10-x86-local.gz</a> from sunfreeware.com.</li>
  <li>used secure copy to transfer them from OSX to the Solaris VM.</li>
  <li>logged into the vm as root, cd to /tmp</li>
  <li>gunzip both files</li>
  <li>pkgadd -d both extracted files, answered the prompts ..</li>
  <li><strong>DONE</strong></li>
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  <p>Thx again Timo. </p>