From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13333 invoked by alias); 6 Dec 2004 19:29:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 13321 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2004 19:29:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailgw.cs.york.ac.uk) (144.32.40.3) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 6 Dec 2004 19:29:23 -0000 Received: from minster ([144.32.40.2] helo=minster.cs.york.ac.uk) by mailgw.cs.york.ac.uk with esmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.24) id 1CbOXG-00029x-8B; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 19:28:38 +0000 Received: from pc302.ad.cs.york.ac.uk ([144.32.80.93]) by minster.cs.york.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1CbOXG-0002ym-FH; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 19:28:38 +0000 Message-ID: <41B4B315.8030407@cs.york.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 19:29:00 -0000 From: Chris Jefferson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Patara, Nishchal" CC: "'gcc@gcc.gnu.org'" Subject: Re: Building gcc compiler References: <8229C4577A00D511ABC00090277A45A00402B6@us0111-ch-ms1.sdi.xcdg.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: <8229C4577A00D511ABC00090277A45A00402B6@us0111-ch-ms1.sdi.xcdg.xerox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-12/txt/msg00263.txt.bz2 Patara, Nishchal wrote: >Hello, >I am a developer at Xerox. I am working on Novell team. Since Novell has >moved to SuSe Linux so I installed the same to one of my machine. It seems >that to install NNLS(Novell Nterprize Linux Services), we need gettext and >to have gettext we need gcc. I installed the latest source of gcc from your >site but it's pre-requisite is "cc", which was not at all installed with the >OS. I searched the whole internet and the CD's I got but could not find c >compiler "cc" for linux. > > > cc is the general name by which a c compiler is called. The simplest way to build gcc is simply to install gcc. However this creates a cirular problem in your case! Suse (along with I hope every linux distribution) comes with a gcc package. Look in your distributions instructions on how to install packages which come with it, and install gcc from there. Chris