Building gcc compiler

Building gcc compiler

[Patara, Nishchal]

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.

Can anybody help to find out how I can build gcc. I downloaded gcc-3.4.3
which I think is the latest of GNU compiler.

Thanks/Regards

Nishchal Patara
Xerox Global Services
Software Development
Bldg. 111-02J
(585) 422-5601
Nishchal Patara <mailto:Npatara@sdi.usa.xerox.com>

Re: Building gcc compiler

[Chris Jefferson]

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

Re: Building gcc compiler

[Nathan Sidwell]

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.

it needs an existing C compiler, what do
	which cc
and
	which gcc
tell you?

However, I don't see how this will help you, gettext should be available
on your distribution anyway.

Oh, and this is the wrong place to ask, gcc-help is the right place.

nathan

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RE: Building gcc compiler

[Patara, Nishchal]

Thanks for your quick reply. I will ask the gcc-help people.

Nishchal Patara
Xerox Global Services
Software Development
Bldg. 111-02J
(585) 422-5601
Nishchal Patara <mailto:Npatara@sdi.usa.xerox.com> 



-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Sidwell [mailto:nathan@codesourcery.com]
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 2:31 PM
To: Patara, Nishchal
Cc: 'gcc@gcc.gnu.org'
Subject: Re: Building gcc compiler


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.

it needs an existing C compiler, what do
	which cc
and
	which gcc
tell you?

However, I don't see how this will help you, gettext should be available
on your distribution anyway.

Oh, and this is the wrong place to ask, gcc-help is the right place.

nathan

-- 
Nathan Sidwell    ::   http://www.codesourcery.com   ::     CodeSourcery LLC
nathan@codesourcery.com    ::     http://www.planetfall.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk

RE: Building gcc compiler

[Patara, Nishchal]

Thanks for your very quick reply. I will ask the SuSe guys, I think the OS
should come at least with the basic c compiler.

In this case it has become a circular problem. The installation notes say
that the prerequisite to have NNLS is gettext and gcc, gcc's prerequisite is
the ANSI C compiler for Linux but both are missing from the OS.

Any way Thanks a lot.

Nishchal Patara
Xerox Global Services
Software Development
Bldg. 111-02J
(585) 422-5601
Nishchal Patara <mailto:Npatara@sdi.usa.xerox.com> 



-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Jefferson [mailto:caj@cs.york.ac.uk]
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 2:29 PM
To: Patara, Nishchal
Cc: 'gcc@gcc.gnu.org'
Subject: Re: Building gcc compiler


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