Help with GCC
 

Hello, I am trying to install the C compiler on my Red Hat 7.2 computer. I read the GNU.GCC page a few times but the install it recomended wouldn't work, I couldn't even get past the "configure" stage. I am using the i386 ver of Redhat with a Pentium 200 MMX and 64 M of Ram. If anyone could tell me where there is some 'newbie' documentation on configuring and building the GCC C Compiler Ver 2.96 I would appreciate it

get the rpm from http://www.rpmfind.net
look there for gcc, you can also install it from the distro's CD.

I have the RPM on my distro CD, however I cannot simply rpm -i it, it says that it needs other files to be installed. Also, after looking at the gnu gcc web page it appears that you have to create an objdir and a srcdir and then configure the dir's or somthing close to that. Is there another C compiler that I can simply unpack and start using? Thanks for your input

compiling new gcc can cause troubles, ie redhat using 2.96 while gcc3.1 + is also available.
Unless you have a strong reason to compile a new one stick with distro version.
and get all dependencies and then rpm

yeah, I think you need header files and a few others, they are all on your CD. I ran into that problem too once, I did what Noerr said, and it works like a charm now. Oh and BTW, you should go for the 3.x one instead of 2.9x since some programs don't like the 2.9x version for some reason.

Thanks everyone for the help, I got it working and compiled my first program :)

MasterC:
I think that RH went back to their 2.96 version in RH7.3 distro, whereas in rh 7.2 they included gcc3 as a seperate version and not linked to gcc.
So I guess it's problematic for them

I remember quite some progs, recomending gcc 2.96 for compiling