8.1.7 Install fails on Sun 2.7 due to no compiler

I am trying to install Oracle 8.1.7 on Solaris 2.7. The Patches are all up to date. During the link phase of installing Net8 I am getting this error.

The install is failing with an Error dialog that says

    "Error in invoking target ntcontab.o of      makefile /u00/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/network/ins_net_client.mk"

I checked on MetalLink and they had some suggestions like trying to run make from the command line. So I tried make -f ins_net_client.mk ntcontab.o - this gave me the error that actually told me something useful.

$ make -r -f ins_net_client.mk ntcontab.o (if [ "assemble" = "compile" ] ; then \
  /u00/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/bin/gennttab > ntcontab.c ;\   cc -c ntcontab.c ;\
  rm -f /u00/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/lib/ntcontab.o ;\   mv ntcontab.o /u00/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/lib ;\

          /usr/ccs/bin/ar rv /u00/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/lib/libn8.a
/u00/app/

oracle/product/8.1.7/lib/ntcontab.o ; fi) (if [ "assemble" = "assemble" ] ; then \   /u00/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/bin/gennttab > ntcontab.s ;\   /usr/ccs/bin/as -P -o ntcontab.o ntcontab.s ;\   rm -f /u00/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/lib/ntcontab.o ;\   mv ntcontab.o /u00/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/lib ;\

          /usr/ccs/bin/ar rv /u00/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/lib/libn8.a
/u00/app/

oracle/product/8.1.7/lib/ntcontab.o ; fi)
/usr/ccs/bin/as: internal error: cf_bof(): couldn't
execv("//usr/ccs/lib/cpp",..
.)
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `ntcontab.o'

It appears that the install needs a compiler. I thought that was not needed on Solaris as a complier is not supplied out of the box with Solaris 2.7.

What is the deal here? Can someone point me in the right direction?

Steve Received on Wed Jun 06 2001 - 17:42:25 CDT