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help me - configuring squid with delay pools

Hi,
I am new to Kubuntu. I am using 5.10 Breezy Badger. I want to limit the bandwidth usage on per pc basis as one of my room mates is eating all the bandwith we have. Among the 4 PCs, mine is the only Linux box (and hence the best to be made a server...lol).

I have successfully configured and used squid over Fedora Core 1 and SuSE 9.1 by following this article ->
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/resourc...O/install.html

I am using the same procedure which I did for them with Kubuntu. But I am getting some gcc errors. I have installed gcc by using apt-get install gcc. Here's what I get on the konsole.

Code:

root@Manish:/usr/squid# ./configure --prefix=/opt/squid --exec-prefix=/opt/squid --enable-delay-pools --enable-cache-digests --enable-poll --disable-ident-lookups --enable-truncate --enable-removal-policies

loading cache ./config.cache

checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu

checking for gcc... gcc

checking whether the C compiler (gcc  -g) works... no

configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables.

root@Manish:/usr/squid#

Can anyone help me, how to overcome this gcc problem?

you really need to learn what is and what is not relevant to a particular problem. this is clearly nothign actaully to do with delay pools whatsoever, merely that you've not installed all the necessary development tools for gcc, which clearly doesn't care what you want to compile and use it for. apt-get install libc-dev.

and /usr/squid/ ? not a good place to compile software. lkeep it in a nominal users home directory or /usr/src/

Quote:

Originally Posted by acid_kewpie

you really need to learn what is and what is not relevant to a particular problem.

Thanks for your reply. I know that it had nothing to do with delay pools. But, I used this subject as many people like me might have faced the same gcc problem while configuring squid. Anyway, I did what u told.

Code:

root@Manish:~# apt-get install libc6-dev

And it worked.

Code:

root@Manish:/usr/src/squid# ./configure --prefix=/opt/squid --exec-prefix=/opt/squid --enable-delay-pools --enable-cache-digests --enable-poll --disable-ident-lookups --enable-truncate --enable-removal-policies

loading cache ./config.cache

checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu

checking for gcc... gcc

checking whether the C compiler (gcc  -g) works... yes

Thanks for the help.