Walk in the park....
Download standard tools...
GNU utilities... libs, compilers
as root make sure you have all those in your path, including /usr/ccs/bin:/usr/ucb
you should be all set... follow the directions and it will work just fine...
had no issues with either PHP or MySQL and now have replaced 3 production DB servers on oracle with MySQL 🙂
Solaris ROCKS!
- a unix administrator