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Re: Installing GCC on Mandrake SNF 7.2
- From: Eric Christopher <echristo at redhat dot com>
- To: Michael Buss <mpbuss1 at attbi dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gnu dot org
- Date: 18 Oct 2002 11:46:59 -0700
- Subject: Re: Installing GCC on Mandrake SNF 7.2
- References: <000001c2759e$99a1de40$0009500a@doc>
I'm not sure what the SNF stands for, but Mandrake comes with a compiler
normally. You may have to install a set of development packages, but the
compiler does exist.
-eric
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 22:32, Michael Buss wrote:
> ALCON,
>
> I am rather new to Linux and I am trying my best to try and figure out how
> to load this gcc 3.11 on my Linux box.
>
> I blew away SSH and I wanted to reinstall it, but there was no compiler on
> the Linux box and none to be obtained from the distro.
>
> So I figured I would just go ahead and download the latest distro of gcc and
> commence to:
>
> tar -xvzt file.tar.gz
> cd gcc-3.1.1
> ./configure
> make
> make install
>
> and I never made it past the ./configure
>
> It told me the following:
>
> cc: command not found
> The command cc -o conftest -g conftest.c failed
> You must set the environment variable CC to a working compiler
>
> I tried to understand your documentation on the website about installing,
> but I just didn't get the "objdir" and "srcdir".
>
> I am not a programmer, but I kinda figured I would need to have the compiler
> to put anything based on source on my computer.
>
> Can you help me?
>
> Thank you
> Mike
>
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