Re: Help!! 2nd Request!!!

[Jeff Sturm <jeff dot sturm at appnet dot com>]

Ben Ocean wrote:
> 1) I know nothing about Mailman; why exactly does it require GCC?
> I haven't a clue, but they're very specific about it on the Mailman site:
> download GCC first!

Any specific version of GCC needed?  Do you need a C++ compiler or just C?

> 2) What platform are you trying to build for?  Does it have a C compiler
> now?
> My platform is RedHat 6.2. I apologize that I don't know if it has a C
> compiler yet: my sys-admin is having *technical difficulties* right now so I
> can't ask him. As I recall, they didn't build anything fancy over the RedHat
> install that had to do with C.

GCC should already be there.  Log into the machine and just enter "gcc
--version". If it says something like "egcs-2.91.66" you might be good to go, no
need to download/configure/install anything (unless Mailman needs a specific
version).

If instead you see "gcc: command not found" you may not have it (though that
would be very unusual for a Red Hat OS).

> 3) You may find it simpler to install a binary release of GCC than
> attempting to
> configure and build the source release.  Did you check if one is available
> for
> your system?
> Hmmm. Well, if they've got them for anything, they've got them for RedHat,

Red Hat normally bundles gcc in an RPM package.  It's part of the standard
server or workstation install.

> right? I went here:
> http://www.sco.com/skunkware/devtools/index.html#gcc
> and got confused :(  They talk a lot about skunkware, but I'm not built on
> skunkware (that's different than RedHat, right?)

Yes, that's for SCO Unix.  It won't do you any good at all.

> 4) Don't post in HTML, even as a multipart message.  It makes your message
> more
> difficult to read and quote for me, and many others I suspect.
> Help me here. I just switched over to Outlook from Eudora (long story) and
> it made Word my default processor. I know the bold and italics tags came
> over last time (sorry about that!), but is this coming across as plain
> ASCII, or do I need to change the default? My machine obviously reads my
> posts just fine. Thank you for your help!

I didn't have any trouble reading your last message.

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Jeff Sturm
jeff.sturm@commerceone.com