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I'm getting these errors whenever I try installing something:
Code:
[root@xeon icecast-1.3.7]# ./configure
loading cache ./config.cache
Building icecast-1.3.7...
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... missing
checking for working autoconf... missing
checking for working automake... missing
checking for working autoheader... missing
checking for working makeinfo... missing
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for ranlib... :
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH
Life today is getting complicated as Bill's doomsday comes...
You do not seem to have any development tools installed.
You will not be able to compile a source program without a compiler; usually gcc is used together with automake, autoconf, makeinfo etc.
You haven't said your distro, so I can't give you instructions on installing these. Most major distros (except SuSE personal) ship these on the CDs, but you can also download them (eg from www.rpmfind.net for RPM files). It's usually easier (faster) to try and install prepackaged files like .RPMs and .DEBs using your distro's install tool, rather than compiling from source (unless, of course, you want to change things in the source code).
I got a Fedora 1 running as a remote server. It has no GUI so we do everything in the console. I just downloaded gcc 3.4.1 but do not know how to install it.
Can you guide me on how to do this. I'm a baby when it comes to Linux although Im considering migrating completely to it.
You need to download the RPM package for your distro. Looks like you got the tar.gz of the source. Unfortunately, you can't install gcc from source, because you need a C compiler to compile gcc (sounds strange, doesn't it?). As I said, check your install CDs for the RPM or download from one of the mirrors. "yum install gcc" should also work, if you have Yum configured.
In this case the solution is simple -- install the binutils and glibc-devel packages off the CD. You might find it worth your while to configure Yum to do automagic dependency resolution (Google on Yum for more info).
Make sure you are in the directory where the configure script is, and also make sure it's still an executable file. How? When you find the directory, if you:
ls -lh
It will list the bits that are given to each file, and if the 'x' bit is set on that file, then you are good to go.
I'm also having the same problem with SuSE Linux 9.1. Here's what i get.
Quote:
user # ./configure
creating 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}... no
checking for working aclocal... missing
checking for working autoconf... missing
checking for working automake... missing
checking for working autoheader... missing
checking for working makeinfo... missing
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for cups-config... no
checking whether to build CUPS driver... no
checking whether to build translated CUPS PPD files... yes
checking whether to use level 3 PostScript... no
checking whether to build ghostscript driver... no
checking for foomatic-configure... no
checking whether to build foomatic data files... no
checking for foomatic-ppdfile... no
checking whether to make use of Foomatic 3.x features... no
checking whether to use the old numerical Foomatic printer IDs... no
checking for ijs-config... /usr/bin/ijs-config
checking whether to build IJS driver... yes
checking whether to turn on debugging in build... no
checking whether to use readline... yes
checking for gimptool-1.2... no
checking for gimptool... /opt/gnome/bin/gimptool
checking whether to build GIMP plugin... no
checking whether to install sample images... yes
checking whether to install user guide... yes
checking whether to build escputil... yes
checking whether to build testpattern generator... no
checking whether to build test programs... no
checking if user install is enabled... no
checking for strerror in -lcposix... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for gawk... gawk
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH
I have gcc installed, but i can't find it using find.
Quote:
find / -name gcc
find: /media/cdrom: No medium found
find: /media/cdrecorder: No medium found
find: /media/floppy: No medium found
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