./configure problems
 

Hi, I'm new to Linux and I having problems with the BASH.

I downloaded a .tgz file into the home directory. I had no problems unzipping it. When I changed to the unzipped directory and use ./configure, I got the following:

checking MACHDEP... linux2
checking EXTRAPLATDIR...
checking for --without-gcc... no
checking for --with-cxx=<compiler>... no
checking for c++... no
checking for g++... no
checking for gcc... no
checking for CC... no
checking for cxx... no
checking for cc++... no
checking for cl... 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
See `config.log' for more details.

Is there a problem with a compiler?
BTW I'm using SuSE 8.0 Personal

Have you got gcc installed? try typing

$ gcc -v

if it doesn't return the version you haven't got it installed. Also check if you have 'make' installed. You might run into an unpleasant surprise: you'll have to download both and a couple of dependencies to make it all work.

Looks like I'm missing both.

Happy downloading

Ok I have the same problem as beans had but I do have gcc installed and make. I installed all of the development software as well. Do you think you know what could be the problem...if I could just install stuff everything would be great. Thanks!

Maybe you haven't got the version of gcc the program is looking for - udate to the latest and see if it works.

P.S is the error message really exactly the same? If not, could you post it?

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=217895

this might give you a head start

Here is the error message:

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 to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for style of include used by make... none
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 updated all the development files and I did an online update and updated everything. This doesn't really make any sense.

It looks like you do not have make installed, and your PATH is set incorrectly.

Which user installed gcc?

Install as root using YaST.

I just tried updating gcc under root and that didn't seem to do any good. How do I get make...I searched for it in yast and couldn't find it, and how do I change the path? If you could just explain to me in greater detail that would be great...thanks.

look at the suse ftp sites, that's wher I got it. The dependencie stuff is a bit bewildering though.