Subject: Re: Compiling Software
From: Robert Serphillips (rserphillips@austin.rr.com)
Date: Sun Dec 02 2001 - 13:41:51 MST
That's it. Thanks. Turns out I didn't have that installed or the glibc-devel package, two big ones.
-Rob
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001 12:04:00 -0800
Duane Murphy <duanemurphy@mac.com> wrote:
> --- At Sun, 2 Dec 2001 07:41:55 -0500, Patrick Callahan wrote:
>
> >On Saturday 01 December 2001 02:31, you wrote:
> >> Just installed a bunch of packages so that I can complie this software. I
> >> installed cpp,binutils,gcc,make,and automake. Here's the error I get. Am I
> >> missing somthing?
> >>
> ><snip>
> >
> >> checking for gcc... gcc
> >> checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... no
> >> configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot
> >> create executables.
> >I've seen that one before.
> >
> >You might want to take a look at the .configure script to see exactly why it
> >is reporting that the c compiler cannot create executables.
> >
> >Just search for the error message in the script, and see what causes it to
> >appear. Sometimes the answer to the problem will be obvious from reading
> >the .configure script. Other times you'll have to puzzle it out.
> >
> >You might want to reply back to this message with what you find in the
> >.configure script. I'd do this even if I found the answer.
>
> The simplest answer I found when this happened was to write a short hello
> world C program and try and compile it. Sure enough it couldnt be done.
>
> It turns out that there is a host of RPMs that have to be installed. Some
> that I wasnt sure of. In particular the one that I was missing was
> kernel-headers. That just didnt sit right with me, but its needed by the
> C compiler.
>
> ..Duane
>
>
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