Re: SW installation from source problem (probably OFF TOPIC)

Subject: Re: SW installation from source problem (probably OFF TOPIC)
From: Dennis Murphy (dmurphy@leguin.montclair.edu)
Date: Sun Jun 18 2000 - 09:27:33 MDT

My experience says that this is a problem with PHP, not your machine.

I had the same issue with PHP on Solaris... my solution? Just remove that
check from the configure script ;) 

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  Dennis Murphy
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  Technical Analyst
  Sun Support Group
  murphde@bam.com
  (914)365-7104

On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Casper VE van de Pavert wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I ran into an odd problem, can't find the aswer: the C compiler (gcc) 
> can't make executables. This probably has nothing to do with 
> yelolowdog itself? Sorry to be off topic then.
> 
> Here's a transcript of my first from source installation attempt, any 
> clues to what I'm doing wrong would be highly appreciated.
> 
> [root@office php-4.0.0]# ./configure --with-mysql --with-apxs 
> --host=powerpc-yellowdog-linux
> loading cache ./config.cache
> checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
> checking for working aclocal... found
> checking for working autoconf... found
> checking for working automake... found
> checking for working autoheader... found
> checking for working makeinfo... missing
> checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
> checking host system type... powerpc-yellowdog-linux-gnu
> checking for bison... bison -y
> checking for bison version... 1.28 (ok)
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... no
> configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler 
> cannot create executables.
> [root@office php-4.0.0]#
> 
> This failed both on my 8200/120 and 8500/150. YDL CS 1.2
> "gcc-2.95.2-1i" is installed along with it's dependency "cpp"
> Also "makeinfo" appears to be missing, where can I find that? Typing 
> "locate makeinfo" results in nothing...

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