You tried to build ioq3 and you didn't build oa.
Yes thats right. My understanding was that ioquake3 & openarena data files would work.
I tried building OA but it failed since <basedir>/ui that contains menudef.h was missing. Based on the diffs between ioquake3 and OpenArena, I believe that menudef.h is probably taken as is and hence picked it from ioquake3 source code and built OA successfully.
My build is now successful.
Now there is problem with OpenGL when I try running it. It seems that hardware acceleration for the graphics is required for Q3.
I am using Solaris Express on VMware and the virtualization environments (VMware,Xen,etc) currently do not support hardware acceleration.
Currently I am running Solaris Express on VMware. Will verify it on another box where it is natively installed.
best regards
Shiv