Re: help on installation

[Ian Roxborough <irox@redhat.com>]

conftest.c is generated by configure to check the basics
of your compiler.  Does you compiler work for a quick
"Hello World!" program?

If you look in config.log you should get more information
on why it failed.

Ian.

Wayne Dernoncourt wrote:
> 
> I'm having problems getting SourceNavigator to compile on Solaris.
> I've browsed through the archives and couldn't find anything
> appropriate - I'm sure I've missed something.  Below is a copy of
> the slightly edited dialog between the 'puter and me trying to
> compile/install SourceNavigator.
> 
> - - - - - -
> $ SN452/configure
> Configuring for a sparc-sun-solaris2.6 host.
> Created "Makefile" in /home1/hermes/wayned using "mh-frag"
> gcc: ${OPT}: No such file or directory
> *** The command '/opt/gnu/bin/gcc -o conftest -ansi ${OPT} conftest.c'
>   failed.
> *** You must set the environment variable CC to a working compiler.
> 14:26:56
> ~
> $ set|more
>  ...stuff deleted...
> CC=/opt/gnu/bin/gcc
> 
> $ ls -l /opt/gnu/bin/gcc
> -rwxr-xr-x   2 root       215164 Dec 22 07:32 /opt/gnu/bin/gcc
> 
> - - - - - -
> 
> I do find gcc (also g++ is available if that would work better) -
> see above, however I don't see conft* anywhere (I did try conf*
> to make sure the syntax was correct, I got lots of config files).
> What am I missing?
> 
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