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Install GCC binaries and then screen on unknown distro

Hello, I have a pre-configured linux distro on a raspberry pi (used for a bitcoin miner)
My target is to install screen so I can run cgminer on it and then ssh out and keep it running.
I downloaded the tarball, ran tar -xzvf screen-4.0.3.tar.gz , but when I run ./configure I get

Code:

root@raspberrypi:~/screen-4.0.3# ./configure

this is screen version 4.0.3

checking for prefix by checking for screen... 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.

I can't tell which distro it is, no welcome message when I log on or something.
The only thing I could find:

Code:

root@raspberrypi:~# cat /etc/issue

Poky 9.0.3 (Yocto Project 1.4.3 Reference Distro) 1.4.3 \n \l

can someone help?

http://www.yoctoproject.org -> http://www.yoctoproject.org/tools-resources/projects/poky ?

That link doesn't help me much.. Yes I have looked through the yocto webpages, wiki and such, but I could not find any useful information on a yocto software repository, or how to install other software.

cat /etc/opkg/*.conf; opkg update; opkg list|grep whatever*; opkg install whatever_package

Code:

root@raspberrypi:~# cat /etc/opkg/*.conf

cat: can't open '/etc/opkg/*.conf': No such file or directory

Code:

root@raspberrypi:~# ls /etc/

busybox.links                inputrc                      rc0.d                        services

default                      issue                        rc1.d                        shells

device_table                issue.net                    rc2.d                        skel

dropbear                    ld.so.cache                  rc3.d                        sysctl.conf

filesystems                  ld.so.conf                  rc4.d                        syslog-startup.conf

fstab                        motd                        rc5.d                        syslog-startup.conf.busybox

group                        mtab                        rc6.d                        terminfo

host.conf                    network                      rcS.d                        timestamp

hostname                    nsswitch.conf                resolv.conf                  udev

hosts                        passwd                      rpc                          udhcpc.d

init.d                      profile                      rpm                          version

inittab                      protocols                    rpm-postinsts                volatile.cache

Code:

root@raspberrypi:~# opkg

-sh: opkg: not found

Quote:

Originally Posted by unSpawn (Post 5140004)

which ipkg opkg

Does not return anything. Thanks for helping BTW:)

Code:

root@raspberrypi:~# ls /bin

addgroup            fgrep                ping6

adduser              grep                ps

ash                  gunzip              pwd

busybox              gzip                rm

cat                  hostname            rmdir

chattr              ip                  sed

chgrp                kill                sh

chmod                ln                  sleep

chown                login                stty

cp                  ls                  su

cpio                mkdir                sync

date                mknod                tar

dd                  mktemp              tinylogin

delgroup            more                touch

deluser              mount                true

df                  mountpoint          umount

dmesg                mountpoint.sysvinit  uname

dnsdomainname        mv                  usleep

dumpkmap            netstat              vi

echo                pidof                zcat

egrep                pidof.sysvinit

false                ping

Which distribution are you running?
If the answer is "I don't know" then what information is it you want to give to John Q Random and why?

Quote:

Originally Posted by 273 (Post 5176783)

Which distribution are you running?
If the answer is "I don't know" then what information is it you want to give to John Q Random and why?

Code:

root@raspberrypi:~# cat /etc/issue

Poky 9.0.3 (Yocto Project 1.4.3 Reference Distro) 1.4.3 \n \l

I have to say I have no idea how to use Yocto. As far as I can see it seems to be a framework for installing Linux on embedded systems which includes the Pi. Unless you're using Yocto for a specific reason I'd suggest installing Raspbian so you can just "apt-get install screen" and, if you're running Jessie (currently testing, will be Stable) just "apt-get install cgminer" also.

I have tried using debian and porting the whole miner thing to it, but for some reason cgminer starts producing many errors after a few minutes and eventually it crashes:

Code:

 cgminer version 4.3.2 - Started: [2014-05-24 20:27:45]

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 (5s):47.49G (1m):391.3G (5m):385.4G (15m):192.6G (avg):562.8Gh/s

 A:55440  R:128  HW:670  WU:7826.1/m

 Connected to uk1.ghash.io diff 256 with stratum as user vr4dude316.hashitup

 Block: 5c15d060...  Diff:10.5G  Started: [20:32:32]  Best share: 9.59K

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 [U]SB management [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit

 0: BA1 0      :  0: 8/246              | 5.243G / 168.2Gh/s WU:2340.3/m

 1: BA1 1      :  1: 8/249              | 6.055G / 188.1Gh/s WU:2639.8/m

 2: BA1 2      :  2: 8/254              | 46.59G / 206.1Gh/s WU:2846.0/m

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 [2014-05-24 20:34:10] 0: cmd_READ_RESULT_BCAST failed

 [2014-05-24 20:34:10] 1: cmd_READ_RESULT_BCAST failed

 [2014-05-24 20:34:10] 0: cmd_READ_RESULT_BCAST failed

 [2014-05-24 20:34:10] 1: cmd_READ_RESULT_BCAST failed

 [2014-05-24 20:34:10] 0: cmd_READ_RESULT_BCAST failed

 [2014-05-24 20:34:10] 1: cmd_READ_RESULT_BCAST failed

So I had to go back to this custom distro made by the miner's manufacturer.
So my only option is to install gcc on it to be able to install other tools like screen.