Re: help on installation

[Wayne Dernoncourt <wayned@cpcug.org>]

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.

> 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:

15:51:58
~
$ ls -lR *|grep "Mar 1"
-rw-rw-r--   1 wayned      54263 Mar 13 15:50 Makefile
-rw-rw-r--   1 wayned        108 Mar 13 15:49 mh-frag
drwxrwxr-x   2 wayned       1536 Mar 13 15:49 X
-rwxrwxr-x   1 wayned      70676 Mar 13 15:49 actions
-rw-rw-r--   1 wayned      64692 Mar 13 15:49 actions.o
-rw-rw-r--   1 wayned       1004 Mar 12 14:42 crap.tcl
15:56:54
~
$ 

(well the old version of actions was 26k, this is 70k oh well).
(actions was my test case, it compiled and ran okay)

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