Sudden Compiling Errors

linux-n00b · 02-01-2007, 06:18 PM

Hey everyone,

I've been using FC5 for about 3 months now, so I'm not a complete n00b, but I have managed to stumble into a hole and am having trouble digging myself out. Hopefully someone in here can lend me a hand.

I have never had a problem compiling from source until a few days ago. I installed a few RPM's and now when I try to use the "./configure" I get this readout:

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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)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
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

Now, it says that it cannot find GCC, but I know that I have it installed (I was able to compile files before). Could any of the RPM's that I installed (Azureus, Xine, or libdvdcss) have "re-arranged" something?

I searched the forums before starting this new thread, but it seems everyone else who had this problem was either using FC3 or didn't have GCC installed previously.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

gilead · 02-01-2007, 06:43 PM

None of the packages Azureus, Xine, or libdvdcss should have affected your compiler. What do you get as the output of:

Code:

which {g,}cc

linux-n00b · 02-01-2007, 06:54 PM

Hey, thanks for such a fast response!

The output is:

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[root@server ~]# which {g, }cc
/usr/bin/which: no {g, in (/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin)
/usr/bin/which: no }cc in (/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin)

gilead · 02-01-2007, 06:58 PM

There shouldn't be a space between the comma and the right brace. That command will be expanded by the shell to:

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which gcc cc

It's just checking to see if the problem is with your compiler (ie is it installed) or the package you're working with.

linux-n00b · 02-01-2007, 07:02 PM

My bad. Here's the output of the right code:

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[root@server ~]# which {g,}cc
/usr/bin/which: no gcc in (/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin)
/usr/bin/which: no cc in (/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin)

gilead · 02-01-2007, 07:27 PM

It looks like at least some of your gcc packages have been uninstalled. I don't use Fedora anymore, but running rpm -q | sort should let you see which of the gcc packages are there.

linux-n00b · 02-01-2007, 07:46 PM

Hmm. I wonder how they got uninstalled. I suppose I'll have to re-install gcc and cc right?

Whenever I run that code, I get:

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[root@server ~]# rpm -q | sort
rpmq: no arguments given for query

gilead · 02-01-2007, 09:33 PM

Sorry about that - I was trying to remember the syntax for the rpm command and couldn't get it. I think it needs -a as well, but I'm not sure:

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rpm -q -a | sort

linux-n00b · 02-05-2007, 04:56 PM

Yea, I have no idea how my GCC became uninstalled, but none the less, I'll just install the RPM off the cd.

I appreciate all of your help, gilead.

gilead · 02-05-2007, 04:58 PM

No problem - hopefully the compile will be painless after that

linux-n00b · 02-06-2007, 04:49 PM

Alright, well, here's another bump I've seem to run into. When I go to compile, it gives me:

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[root@server airsnort-0.2.7e]# ./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)... 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... 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 for library containing strerror... none required
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... (cached) none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... (cached) none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking how to run the C preprocessor... /lib/cpp
configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

The other posts that had the similar "fails sanity check" that are up on LinuxQuestions.org all result from people not having their GCC compiler installed, where, as you can see, mine is.

Ideas?

gilead · 02-06-2007, 08:12 PM

Is /lib/cpp a symbolic link to /usr/bin/cpp on your system? It may be a different location, but the location the link points to should be the same as the output of which cpp

linux-n00b · 02-07-2007, 12:26 AM

which cpp gives me:

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[root@server ~]# which cpp
/usr/bin/cpp

So, I go to make the symbolic link and...

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[root@server ~]# ln /lib/cpp /usr/bin/cpp
ln: creating hard link `/usr/bin/cpp' to `/lib/cpp': File exists

However, I'm still getting the same error when I go to compile:

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configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check