I am trying to install the latest Apache on Suse 9.1. I am following the instructions @ httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/install.html. The problem is when I run this command I get a C compiler error. I have search several places and cannot find anything other that making sure that GCC is installed. I have also tried to install C/C++ Compiler and Tools under YaST2.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Command:
$ CC="pgcc" CFLAGS="-O2" \
./configure --prefix=/sw/pkg/apache \
--enable-rewrite=shared \
--enable-speling=shared

Error:
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler
cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
configure failed for srclib/apr

After this step the $make command works and the $Make Install command fails.

Why are you setting CC to pgcc? pgcc is the Portland Group compiler, which you probably don't have installed. Or was that just a typo inb your post?

To be honest I am not sure. I was just following the directions on Apache's website. I have tried to run that command without setting CC to pgcc. I have tried entering as follows:

./configure --prefix=/sw/pkg/apache \
--enable-rewrite=shared \
--enable-speling=shared

This seems to work it does a bunch of stuff. The main problem is after this command is successful the documentation says I should run the
$ make command(with is successful) and then the $make install command fails with:

install: too few arguments Try'install Help' for more information.

I am not sure if the ./configure command is creating the source tree in order to run the next step's.

Any idea's?

I've never seen an Apache make install fail with that exact error? Are you running 'make install' as root? Does the /sw/pkg directory exist? Can you post a few lines of output before you get to that error?

Yes I am running 'make install' as root. The /sw/pkg directory does not exist? Here are a some lines of the output it's a bit long but I took everything that said yes out.

Command:
./configure --prefix=/home/dashon/httpd-2.0.53 --enable-rewrite=shared --enable-speling=shared

Results:
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checking for f95... no
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checking for xlf95... no
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checking for pgf95... no
checking for lf95... no
checking for gfortran... no
checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... no
checking whether accepts -g... no
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 32768

checking for alloca... no
checking for stricmp... no
checking for sendfilev in -lsendfile... no
checking for sendfile... yes
checking for send_file... no
checking for sendfilev... no
checking for _getch... no
checking for type of return code from strerror_r... pointer
checking for crypt_r... yes
checking style of crypt_r... struct_crypt_data_gnu_source
adding "-D_GNU_SOURCE" to CPPFLAGS
checking for getpassphrase... no
checking whether sigwait takes one argument... no
checking for inode member of struct dirent... d_fileno
checking for file type member of struct dirent... d_type
checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
checking ByteOrder.h usability... no
checking ByteOrder.h presence... no
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checking conio.h usability... no
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checking size of void*... 4
checking for strnicmp... no
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checking for dlopen... no
checking for union semun in sys/sem.h... no
checking for pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np with _POSIX_THREAD_PRIO_INHERIT... no
decision on apr_lock implementation method... SysV IPC semget()
checking if all interprocess locks affect threads... no
checking if POSIX sems affect threads in the same process... no
checking if SysV sems affect threads in the same process... no
checking if fcntl locks affect threads in the same process... no
checking if flock locks affect threads in the same process... no
checking for entropy source... /dev/random

Checking for Time Support...
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checking for TCP_NOPUSH in netinet/tcp.h... no
checking for SO_ACCEPTFILTER in sys/socket.h... no
checking whether SCTP is supported... no
checking for set_h_errno... no
Checking for IPv6 Networking support...
checking for library containing getaddrinfo... none required
checking for library containing gai_strerror... none required
checking for library containing getnameinfo... none required
Restore user-defined environment settings...
restoring CPPFLAGS to ""
setting EXTRA_CPPFLAGS to "-DLINUX=2 -D_REENTRANT -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE"
restoring CFLAGS to ""
setting EXTRA_CFLAGS to "-g -O2 -pthread"
restoring LDFLAGS to ""
setting EXTRA_LDFLAGS to ""
restoring LIBS to ""
setting EXTRA_LIBS to "-lrt -lm -lcrypt -lnsl -lpthread -ldl"
restoring INCLUDES to ""
setting EXTRA_INCLUDES to ""

Construct Makefiles and header files.
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating strings/Makefile
config.status: creating passwd/Makefile
config.status: creating tables/Makefile
config.status: creating build/Makefile
config.status: creating file_io/unix/Makefile
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config.status: creating dso/unix/Makefile
config.status: creating test/Makefile
config.status: creating test/internal/Makefile
config.status: creating include/apr.h
config.status: creating build/apr_rules.mk
config.status: creating build/pkg/pkginfo
config.status: creating apr-config
config.status: creating include/arch/unix/apr_private.h
config.status: executing default commands
srclib/apr configured properly
setting CC to "gcc"
setting CPP to "gcc -E"
setting CFLAGS to " -g -O2 -pthread"
setting CPPFLAGS to " -DLINUX=2 -D_REENTRANT -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE"
setting LDFLAGS to " "
setting INCLUDES to " -I/home/dashon/httpd-2.0.53/srclib/apr/include "

Configuring Apache Portable Runtime Utility library...

checking for APR-util... reconfig
configuring package in srclib/apr-util now
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for working mkdir -p... yes
APR-util Version: 0.9.6
checking for chosen layout... apr-util
Applying apr-util hints file rules for i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for APR... yes
setting CC to "gcc"
setting CPP to "gcc -E"
setting CFLAGS to " -g -O2 -pthread"
setting CPPFLAGS to " -DLINUX=2 -D_REENTRANT -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE"
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
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checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for ldap support...
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checking for default DBM... sdbm (default)
checking for Expat in /usr... yes
setting APRUTIL_EXPORT_LIBS to "-lexpat"
setting APRUTIL_LDFLAGS to ""
setting APRUTIL_LIBS to "/usr/lib/libexpat.la"
checking for library containing crypt... -lcrypt
checking if system crypt() function is threadsafe... no
checking for crypt_r... yes
checking style of crypt_r... struct_crypt_data
adding "/home/dashon/httpd-2.0.53/srclib/apr/libapr-0.la" to APRUTIL_LIBS
adding "-lrt" to APRUTIL_LIBS
adding "-lm" to APRUTIL_LIBS
adding "-lcrypt" to APRUTIL_LIBS
adding "-lnsl" to APRUTIL_LIBS
adding "-lpthread" to APRUTIL_LIBS
adding "-ldl" to APRUTIL_LIBS
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating export_vars.sh
config.status: creating apu-config
config.status: creating build/pkg/pkginfo
config.status: creating include/private/apu_select_dbm.h
config.status: creating include/apr_ldap.h
config.status: creating include/apu.h
config.status: creating include/apu_want.h
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating buckets/Makefile
config.status: creating crypto/Makefile
config.status: creating dbm/Makefile
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config.status: creating encoding/Makefile
config.status: creating hooks/Makefile
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config.status: creating strmatch/Makefile
config.status: creating xlate/Makefile
config.status: creating test/Makefile
config.status: creating include/private/apu_config.h
config.status: include/private/apu_config.h is unchanged
config.status: executing default commands
srclib/apr-util configured properly
adding "-I/home/dashon/httpd-2.0.53/srclib/apr-util/include" to INCLUDES
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E

Configuring PCRE regular expression library ...

configuring package in srclib/pcre now
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for egrep... grep -E
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating pcre.h
config.status: creating pcre-config
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: config.h is unchanged
config.status: executing default commands
srclib/pcre configured properly

Configuring Apache httpd ...

adding "-I." to INCLUDES
adding "-I$(top_srcdir)/os/$(OS_DIR)" to INCLUDES
adding "-I$(top_srcdir)/server/mpm/$(MPM_SUBDIR_NAME)" to INCLUDES
adding "-I$(top_srcdir)/modules/http" to INCLUDES
adding "-I$(top_srcdir)/modules/filters" to INCLUDES
adding "-I$(top_srcdir)/modules/proxy" to INCLUDES
adding "-I$(top_srcdir)/include" to INCLUDES
adding "-I$(top_srcdir)/modules/generators" to INCLUDES

Applying OS-specific hints for httpd ...

forcing SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT to "1"
forcing AP_NONBLOCK_WHEN_MULTI_LISTEN to "1"
checking for rm... /bin/rm
checking for gawk... gawk
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for AIX... no
checking for library containing strerror... none required
checking minix/config.h usability... no
checking minix/config.h presence... no
checking for minix/config.h... no
checking sys/processor.h usability... no
checking sys/processor.h presence... no
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checking for bindprocessor... no
checking whether to enable mod_auth_anon... no
checking whether to enable mod_auth_dbm... no
checking whether to enable mod_auth_digest... no
setting LT_LDFLAGS to "-export-dynamic"
checking whether to enable mod_isapi... no
checking whether to enable mod_file_cache... no
checking whether to enable mod_echo... no
checking whether to enable mod_charset_lite... no
checking whether to enable mod_cache... no
checking whether to enable mod_disk_cache... no
checking whether to enable mod_mem_cache... no
checking whether to enable mod_example... no
checking whether to enable mod_case_filter... no
checking whether to enable mod_case_filter_in... no
checking whether to enable mod_dumpio... no
checking whether to enable mod_ldap... no
checking whether to enable mod_auth_ldap... no
checking whether to enable mod_ext_filter... no
checking whether to enable mod_deflate... no
checking whether to enable mod_log_config... yes (default)
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checking whether to enable mod_logio... no
checking whether to enable mod_env... yes (default)
checking whether to enable mod_mime_magic... no
checking whether to enable mod_cern_meta... no
checking whether to enable mod_expires... no
checking whether to enable mod_headers... no
checking whether to enable mod_usertrack... no
checking whether to enable mod_unique_id... no
checking whether to enable mod_setenvif... yes (default)
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checking whether to enable mod_proxy_ftp... no
checking whether to enable mod_proxy_http... no
checking whether to enable mod_ssl... no
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checking whether to enable mod_optional_fn_import... no
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checking whether to enable mod_bucketeer... no
checking for target platform... unix
checking bstring.h usability... no
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checking which MPM to use... prefork
checking for extra modules... none
checking whether to enable mod_dav... no
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checking whether to enable mod_info... no
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checking whether to enable mod_dav_fs... no
checking whether to enable mod_vhost_alias... no
checking whether to enable mod_negotiation... yes (default)
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no

Restore user-defined environment settings...

restoring CPPFLAGS to ""
setting EXTRA_CPPFLAGS to " -DLINUX=2 -D_REENTRANT -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE"
restoring CFLAGS to ""
setting EXTRA_CFLAGS to " -g -O2 -pthread"
restoring CXXFLAGS to ""
setting EXTRA_CXXFLAGS to ""
restoring LDFLAGS to ""
setting EXTRA_LDFLAGS to " "
restoring LIBS to ""
setting EXTRA_LIBS to ""
restoring INCLUDES to ""
setting EXTRA_INCLUDES to " -I/home/dashon/httpd-2.0.53/srclib/apr/include -I/home/dashon/httpd-2.0.53/srclib/apr-util/include -I. -I$(top_srcdir)/os/$(OS_DIR) -I$(top_srcdir)/server/mpm/$(MPM_SUBDIR_NAME) -I$(top_srcdir)/modules/http -I$(top_srcdir)/modules/filters -I$(top_srcdir)/modules/proxy -I$(top_srcdir)/include -I$(top_srcdir)/modules/generators -I$(top_srcdir)/modules/dav/main"

Construct makefiles and header files...

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config.status: creating docs/conf/ssl-std.conf
config.status: creating include/ap_config_layout.h
config.status: creating support/apxs
config.status: creating support/apachectl
config.status: creating support/dbmmanage
config.status: creating support/envvars-std
config.status: creating support/log_server_status
config.status: creating support/logresolve.pl
config.status: creating support/phf_abuse_log.cgi
config.status: creating support/split-logfile
config.status: creating build/rules.mk
config.status: creating include/ap_config_auto.h
config.status: include/ap_config_auto.h is unchanged
config.status: executing default commands
linux:/home/dashon/httpd-2.0.53 #

Never mind I figured it out. I used the ./configure command without all the additional stuff. The make and make install command was success without the $ sign in front. Thanks in advance for your help.