How to get GCC and Make without having GCC or Make???

ayteebee · 01-22-2006, 04:57 PM

I installed my nice Suse 9.1 Professional a while back, but it seems I didn't install any installation utilities. Now when I type ./configure I get the following:

Code:

andy@linux:/downloads/make/make-3.80> ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... no
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) no
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH

Unlucky. Or stupid

. I'm trying to expand my CLI skills so I was hoping to rectify this without having to resort to YAST, RPMs or the Suse Linux DVD.

I have downloaded [I think the source packages of] make and untarred it... What now??

Please be patient with me, I'm fairly new to the command line and this will be the first time I've had to install anything from there!

Is this even possible, or shall I just revert to YAST and the DVD?

tkedwards · 01-22-2006, 05:08 PM

Install gcc and make using YAST. You should always get important system components like this from your distro's packages so you're not taking the lazy way by using YAST - you're doing it the right way

If you want to compile install gcc and make manually just to learn then have a look at the gcc page about bootstrapping gcc http://gcc.gnu.org/install/, however I'd just do this as a learning excercise - still use the packaged gcc that came with suse.

ayteebee · 01-22-2006, 05:17 PM

Ok, thanks very much.

In that case I'll just have to settle for updating KDE sometime then. I broke it once and haven't got round to fixing it

. You will learn to despair of me.