I am the proud owner of a Popcorn Hour(PCH), a NAS-like device which runs a strange native linux version. On top of this I have installed a chrooted debian etch, where I am trying to install the tool socat. The PCH has a mipsel processor.
Just to cover my bases,
this is what I did to install debian (just in case there is something to be derived from that).
I should mention that while I am not a complete linux newbie, I am far, far away from being a power user.
The first thing I did to get socat, was to try 'apt-get install socat' to get it, but it is not part of the packages for mips apparently.
Then I used wget to get the source code. The problem now is that gcc doesn't seem to be installed, or it not properly registered somehow. When i do a 'aptitude search gcc' i get
Code:
i gcc-4.1-base - The GNU Compiler Collection (base package)
i libgcc1 - GCC support library
which i think means it is installed? However I get this when trying to install socat:
root@PCH-A100:/home/socat-1.7.0.0# ./configure
checking which defines needed for makedepend...
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl.exe... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.
So I am guessing this all means that gcc is there somewhere, but not configured in the $PATH variable, but I don't know where it is, not how to setup it up, so it works properly.
Hope someone can give some tips for this
