Installing GCC on Mandrake SNF 7.2

Installing GCC on Mandrake SNF 7.2

[Michael Buss]

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

Re: Installing GCC on Mandrake SNF 7.2

[Mike Stump]

On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, at 10:32 PM, Michael Buss wrote:
> 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.

This is the wrong list for such discussions.  You will want to find a 
discussion group that is based upon your OS, or binaries, and try there.

Re: Installing GCC on Mandrake SNF 7.2

[Eric Christopher]

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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