installing GCC

[dan hitt]

Hi Robert,

I think the issue is that for somebody new to ubuntu, it is
very, very surprising that there's no compiler.  It certainly
was to me.

And the answer to your reasonable question can be either:
(1) that whoever is doing it does not yet know the
 command sequence
         sudo apt-get install gcc
(2) that whoever is doing it has a lousy internet connection, so
that these apt-get commands take so long they are not really
feasible.

(And even though this is getting afield from gcc, ubuntu is free
software, and it is popular, so it comes up.)

dan

dan

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Atwood, Robert C
<r.atwood@imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
> Exactly why don't you install via apt-get gcc ???
>
>
> You need gcc (or some C compiler)  to build gcc!
> If it's not installed, you cannot build anything from source
>
>  Then once you've built the source version you could  remove the default
> one.
>
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org
>> [mailto:gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org] On Behalf Of e-karim
>> Sent: 08 March 2009 23:21
>> To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
>> Subject: Re: installing GCC
>>
>>
>> thank for your answer, but it seems like if there is no gcc
>> pre-built on my
>> system , cause when i do (gcc -v) ubuntu asks me to apt-get
>> gcc, but my aim
>> si to install it from sources, and when i try it i get this error (no
>> acceptable C compiler found in $PATH) and when i try to find gcc on my
>> system by (find / -name gcc) i got this directory
>> (/usr/lib/gcc) i add it to
>> my path, but no result.
>>
>>
>>
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