Need some help: I have this folder setup with all the files listed after I did tar -zxvf superkaramba-0.33.

file:/home/coop/superkaramba-0.33
(all the files)

Then try to configure:

[coop@x1-6-00-a0-cc-5f-d9-d3 superkaramba-0.33]$ ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for -p flag to install... yes
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
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
See `config.log' for more details.

I don't know what all the messages mean in 'config.log'.

Please keep'er really simple. I have only used ./configure make and makeinstall once and new to Mandrake.

Thanks.

It looks like you don't have a C compiler installed. Run rpm -q gcc. If it doesn't say something like gcc-3.3.2-6mdk, you don't have a compiler. Run urpmi gcc as root to install gcc and then try your ./configure command again. If the rpm does show a package name, then your PATH isn't configured properly.

--mascdman

[root@x1-6-00-a0-cc-5f-d9-d3 root]# urpmi gcc
To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed (20 MB):
gcc-3.3.2-6mdk.i586
glibc-devel-2.3.3-10mdk.i586
Is this OK? (Y/n) y
Please insert the medium named "Installation CD 1 (x86) " on device [/dev/hdc]
Press Enter when ready...

installing /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/gcc-3.3.2-6mdk.i586.rpm /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/glibc-devel-2.3.3-10mdk.i586.rpm
Preparing... ##################################################
1:glibc-devel ##################################################
2:gcc ##################################################
[root@x1-6-00-a0-cc-5f-d9-d3 root]#

So that compiler is installed ok?

Try to run it and got the following:

[coop@x1-6-00-a0-cc-5f-d9-d3 /]$ cd '/home/coop/superkaramba-0.33'
[coop@x1-6-00-a0-cc-5f-d9-d3 superkaramba-0.33]$ ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for -p flag to install... yes
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for g++... no
checking for c++... no
checking for gpp... no
checking for aCC... no
checking for CC... no
checking for cxx... no
checking for cc++... no
checking for cl... no
checking for FCC... no
checking for KCC... no
checking for RCC... no
checking for xlC_r... no
checking for xlC... no
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... no
checking whether g++ accepts -g... no
checking dependency style of g++... none
checking whether g++ supports -Wundef... no
checking whether g++ supports -Wno-long-long... no
checking whether g++ supports -Wnon-virtual-dtor... no
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp
configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
See `config.log' for more details.
[coop@x1-6-00-a0-cc-5f-d9-d3 superkaramba-0.33]$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.


Any ideas?

Thanks.

Okay, it wants a C++ compiler, too. Run urpmi gcc-c++ gcc-cpp.

--mascdman

Have you tried this as it appears to be a "mandrakised" RPM for mandrake 10 (I can't remember if that's how I got it installed, as I tried it, but was also meddling with the tar.gz package as well).