error when installing gift: error: cannot compute sizeof (short), 77
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error when installing gift: error: cannot compute sizeof (short), 77
Hello,
I was looking for an alternative for Kazaa and a little googling gave me gift, so I downloaded it from http://gift.sourceforge.net and I installed it, but during the install it gave me the following error:
Code:
checking for short... yes
checking size of short... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (short), 77
Do I need a library in order to install this? or something else?
help appreciated.
Oh yeah (I'm new to linux, so please don't be to technical )
That error comes from the configure script. I don't understand how that could happen. Take a look in the config.log file to see what the error is. If you don't understand what you see, just seach down to where you see it checking the size of a short and post that portion here.
That is really weird. I don't know how to explain it. I don't see it on my system (Fedora Core 2) when I run the configure script. The log you posted shows that configure gets a floating point exception. From the code configure is generating, that shouldn't happen. Does this machine have other odd problems? Hopefully someone else has seen this and isolated the problem.
no, the system is installed on an Acer laptop, I bought it in June, so its hardware should be supported, and it is as far as my experiences go running normal.
So if I'm right the code gives a floating point exception on my machine, but not on another one?
weird indeed
could it be that I need to install something? As far as I know I've installed all compilers for almost all supported programming languages... but maybe I missed something
I hope somebody can help me, thx for the post anyway
Is there no other way to install it, e.g. by changing the source? The part where it shows an error, is it really essential? Can't it be done by another way?
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