From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15644 invoked by alias); 21 Sep 2005 05:34:06 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 15359 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Sep 2005 05:33:15 -0000 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (HELO zproxy.gmail.com) (64.233.162.203) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 05:33:15 +0000 Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 18so245932nzp for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 22:33:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.37.21.63 with SMTP id y63mr4999573nzi; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 22:33:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.37.22.44 with HTTP; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 22:33:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2e393d0805092022337d665bd3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 05:34:00 -0000 From: corey taylor Reply-To: corey taylor To: hithar@gmail.com Subject: Re: installing problm Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: X-SW-Source: 2005-09/txt/msg00130.txt.bz2 Hitha, You'll need to install a gcc package as you don't have a compiler to comile anything with much less gcc! Please post some information on your distribution. corey On 9/21/05, Hitha Nambiar wrote: > i am trying to configure and install Apache When I download the file and= e > xtract it from the tar file . However, when I try to configure it I > get an error > ressponse that says > > ERROR: could not find a C compiler > > I then searched the internet and found gcc, but when i tried to > configure it is said > configuring for a i86-pc-linux-gnuoldld host > created makefile in home/cvsroot/gcc-3.0.4 using mt-frag > ./configure :cc: comand not found > *** The command 'cc -o conftest -g conftest.c' failed. > *** You must set the environment variable CC to a working compiler. > > I am about as new as you can be in linux > please tell me how ill set the environment variable cc to a working compi= ler > Hitha >