Can't compile
 

I have Redhat 8.0 installed. Today I downloaded all upgrade files from A Redhat FTP site. (Except the kernel) Since all of the downloads were RPMs I upgraded using the rpm -Uvh <Filemane>.rpm command and everything seemed to go smoothly until I tried to install a few tar files using the command line "tar -xzf <Filename>.tar.gz then the "./configure". (Unless otherwise noted in the INSTALL file) Now the tar files will not load. All of them give the error:

"checking for working makeinfo... missing"
"Looking for gcc... no"
"Looking for cc... no"
"Configure: Error: no acceptable cc found in $Path"

What have I done wrong and what can I do to fix it???

I guess the easiest thing to do is run ldconfig

if that does not work you could search for gcc and see what you have

locate gcc

rpm -qa | grep gcc

maybe you will need to reinstall it, or it's not in your path for some reason

David, the ldconfig gave me a "command not found".

The "rpm -q | grep gcc" gave me "libgcc 3.2-7"

What now?

If it makes a difference, I use the KDE desktop and programs. None others are installed so there shouldn't be a conflict there...

TIA...

did you ldconfig as root

what did locate gcc say


you should have something like this, not exactly because this is Slackware

/usr/bin/gcc-2.95.3
/usr/bin/gcc
/usr/bin/i386-slackware-linux-gcc
/usr/bin/g++-gcc-2.95.3
/usr/bin/g77-gcc-2.95.3


ls -l /usr/bin/gcc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Dec 6 11:57 /usr/bin/gcc -> gcc-2.95.3*


ls -l /usr/bin/g++*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Dec 6 11:57 /usr/bin/g++ -> g++-gcc-2.95.3*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 69872 Feb 22 2002 /usr/bin/g++-gcc-2.95.3*

ls -l /usr/bin/g77*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Dec 6 11:57 /usr/bin/g77 -> g77-gcc-2.95.3*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 72296 Feb 22 2002 /usr/bin/g77-gcc-2.95.3*

David, i did try it as su and also logged in as root. Same response "command not found". I went ahead and did a system search and found the file in /sbin.

there needs to be a gcc-???. that's the actual gcc binary

then you must have the links to it, maybe the links are pointing to the old gcc ( broken links ) or they are missing

here is another one you need

ls -l /usr/bin/cc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Dec 6 11:57 /usr/bin/cc -> gcc



I believe you will need at least cc, gcc, gcc, g++, and g77


all of these are links pointing to the new versions binaries

Were you able to compile them beforehand? I installed RedHat once without some of the packages (I was trying to go really light) offered during the install process and had a similar situation. Don't remember exaclty what the package group was called however (perhaps development?). Since the whole thing was so new I just reinstalled and selected those packages. Not that reinstalling is the way to fix things though :)

Can anyone speak for this in regaurds to Mandrake 9.0? Because I'm getting a VERY simmular problem...

They should be close enough, right?

locate gcc is long response. This will take a few minutes..

OK here it is...

/usr/bin/winegcc
/usr/lib/gcc-lib
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2/tradcpp0
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2/cpp0
/usr/lib/qt3-gcc3.2
/usr/lib/oppenoffice/program/libcppuhelper3ggc3.so
/usr/lib/oppenoffice/program/libgcc3_uno.so
/usr/lib/oppenoffice/program/libsalhelper3gcc3.so
//usr/lib/oppenoffice/program/libst1port_gcc.so
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2/tradcpp0
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2/cpp0
/usr/lib/qt3-gcc3.2
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libcppuhelper3gcc3.so
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libgcc3_uno.so
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsalhelper3gcc3.so
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libstlport_gcc.so
/usr/lib/oppenoffice/program/libucbhelper1gcc3.so
/usr/lib/oppenoffice/program/libvos2gcc3.so
/usr/share/ghostscript/Resource/Cmap/HKgccs-B5-H
/usr/share/ghostscript/Resource/Cmap/HKgccs-B5-V
/usr/share/ghostscript/Resource/ac14/CMap/HKgccs-B5-H
/usr/share/ghostscript/Resource/ac14/CMap/HKgccs-B5-V
/lib/libgcc_s-3.2-20020903.so.1
/lib/libgcc_s.so.1

It appears we are missing a few development resources on our end... I'm going to try to install the development files off the installation CD and see what happens. I hear the RPMs a notorious for screwing up your dependences... You agree?

TunedLow, Yes I was able to compile files before this. I just installed RH 8.0 day before yesterday and have been trying to bring it current. It could be that I don't have all the resources installed, so as I said, I'll go back and reinstall them from the installation CD and see what happens.

..

it appears the libs are there, but no binaries

David, you've been great help. You kind of pushed me in the right direction. What I finally had to do, was to rebuild the RPM database, then force install krb5-libs to satisfy a few dependencies and everything is normal again...