Re: beginner a.out question.

["Biju Arjunan" <bijuarjunan at lycos dot com>]

Hi,

the problem may be the path setting.

try to run
[phil@localhost dir]./a.out 

ie forcing the shell to run the a.out that is residing in the current directory.

you can set the PATH in the profile so that the shell will search for the command
from the current directory

export PATH=.:$PATH
 
Thanks,
bijua
    


On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 16:37:21  
 Phil Taylor wrote:
>Background: new installation of redhat 7.1 on pentium 90. In bash.
>
>When trying to compile beginner C source code (hello.c) I get an 
>output "a.out" that will not run.  
>
>xxxxxxxcommandlinequotationsxxxxxxxxxx
>
>[phil@localhost dir]a.out
>bash: a.out: command not found
>
>xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>I do not understand my problem here: the command is right there in the 
>directory ("ls" = a.out and other files).  I have not done any special 
>setting up of gcc to run on my machine.  If I need to do some kind of 
>configuration I could really use a couple hints on how to get started.  I 
>feel quite confused about where gcc resides on my machine and generally how 
>I manipulate it (besides through the command line options).
>
>Sincerely, Phil
>
>(thank you, and my apologies if this msg. is inappropriate.)
>


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