Hi, I'm a newbie on Linux.

I tried to install lame on Linux, but I failed running ./configure

Could anyone tell me what's the problem?

Thanks!

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checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /home/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... no
checking for awk... awk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name...
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

Do you really need to compile it yourself? Most distributions offer pre-compiled packages for lame and liblame already. If it's not in the main repositories, then there's usually some kind of additional one for non-free extra stuff.

Speaking of which, it would help if you added the distro you're using to your profile.

And what did "config.log" say?

Below is on "config.log"

I tried to install lame package on my web hosting server,
and the company runs CentOS 5.2.

Thanks!

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This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

It was created by lame configure 3.98.4, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61. Invocation command line was

$ ./configure

## --------- ##
## Platform. ##
## --------- ##

hostname = ******.com
uname -m = x86_64
uname -r = 2.6.24.2
uname -s = Linux
uname -v = #1 SMP Thu Feb 14 18:00:23 KST 2008

/usr/bin/uname -p = unknown
/bin/uname -X = unknown

/bin/arch = x86_64
/usr/bin/arch -k = unknown
"config.log" 324L, 8549C 2,1

# yum install lame ( lame-devel )

And both packages are also on the install DVD, or :
disk-4:lame-3.97-1.sl.x86_64.rpm
disk-4:lame-devel-3.97-1.sl.x86_64.rpm
( From ScientificLinux SL55 index, hence the "sl".)
EDIT : No lame on CentOS install disks.

Building lame : # yum install glibc-devel
.. to have a usable 'gcc'.
..

Thanks knudfl.

But I don't have a root privilege because I am using web hosting service.

For example,
I can only access /root/users/my_account/

OK then. No need to compile liblame. (Or other libs.)
Shared libraries can usually work in any location.

Suggest : Unpack lame-3.97-1.sl.x86_64.rpm
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux....sl.x86_64.rpm
.. and : cp libmp3lame.so.0.0.0 /home/<name>/lib64/
cd lib64/ && ln -s libmp3lame.so.0.0.0 libmp3lame.so.0
( ///bin/lame : /home/<name>/bin/lame ).

Your application can be started with e.g. :
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/<name>/lib64 && <start-command>

SL55 x86_64 http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux.../55/x86_64/SL/

CentOS55 http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.5/os/x86_64/CentOS/
( Sorry, no lame in the CentOS repo. )