i've just installed slackware linux, but my hard drive is pretty small and i'm going to use this box as a server, so i didnt install any of the program development or library sections. everything was going pretty well until i had to compile a module of php for apache. well, i went out to slackware.com/pb and got packages of glibc and gcc++ but when i do a ./configure on anything, it says "c compiler cant create executables". i'd really appreciate it if somebody could tell me how to compile things not "out of the box"

glib,glibc, and gcc development libraries are needed if you want to compile anything.

would the gcc package, for example, contain all of the libraries i need? like this: http://www.slackware.com/pb/download...c-3.3.5-i486-1 is that just the complier or the libraries too?

hmm... i installed gcc, gcc++, glib, glibc using tgz files from slackware.com/pb and it still gives me the same error.

slack doesn't have -devel or -libs packages ( with the exception of xorg). your problem is most likely you don't have binutils installed. in a terminal do:

ls /var/log/packages | grep binutils

and see if it reports the binutils package as being installed. binutils is required to create executables. One thing to note, since you are running a server and not a desktop, most rootkits depend on the libraries of gcc, so if you don't need it any longer you might want to uninstall it ( note also that c++ programs ( kde, qt, firefox, etc...) need the libstdc++ libs to run which come with g++).

ok, well it didnt find binutils, so that might be the problem. also, uninstalling the compilers is a good tip for foiling possible skiddies .