Re: help on installation

[Ian Roxborough <irox@redhat.com>]

Wayne Dernoncourt wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Ian Roxborough wrote:
> > conftest.c is generated by configure to check the basics
> > of your compiler.  Does you compiler work for a quick
> > "Hello World!" program?
> 
> I just dug up a small C program that I had written back in August for
> a class, it compiled and linked fine.

Well that's good (assuming that you used the same gcc).

> > If you look in config.log you should get more information
> > on why it failed.
> 
> I don't see a config.log anywhere in my current directory structure.
> I used ls -lR * |grep "Mar 13", here are the results:

config.log will be in the same directory that you run configure in.
Note that you should not runing configure in the source directory.
Create a build directory and run configure from there. I.e

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ ../src/configure --prefix=/where/you/want/to/install
$ less config.log


Ian.