On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 22:27:09 +0100, "Christian T. Steigies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 11:05:51AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... description of issues installing gcc on v3r1 deleted ... ] > > > > apparently no binutils are installed > > > > Can someone give me a pointer to solve this? > > Install binutils. Or what do you want to hear? Sorry, as a newbie to debian I assumed that aptitude/dselect would show me that binutils was available and installable. When scrolling through, and selecting binutils-dev, I was informed that it was unavailalbe. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>wajig policy binutils > binutils: > Installed: 2.15-6 > Candidate: 2.15-6 > Version Table: > *** 2.15-6 0 > 500 http://debian stable/main Packages > 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org stable/main Packages > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > > You probably want to install gcc, which depends on gcc-3.3. gcc-2.95 is > nice, but a little outdated, gcc-3.4 might have more problems on m68k than > you want, gcc-3.3 was the default compiler for sarge. If you upgrade your > system to etch (Debian 4.0), you will get gcc-4.1, which works pretty well > on m68k by now. If you install the build-essential package, you will get the > default C compiler for the Debian distribution you installed, plus > libc6-dev, bintutils, make, and a few other packages that do not hurt to > have installed. Depending on what you want to compile, you will need more > packages installed. gcc 3.3 it is then. Though libgcc2 that is installed says gcc 3.4.3 > I don't remember which packages are on which CD, but your problem might be, > that you only have the first CD and the compiler is not on this CD. So you > either need some more CDs or download the packages from the internet, which > only requires a: "apt-get install build-essential" as root. If you decide to > use more CDs, use apt-cdrom. apt-cdrom is a new command, I'll look at it. have the complete 16 cd set and installed from it. Thanks for the help. > Christian jerry -- // Jerry Heyman | "Software is the difference between // Amiga Forever :-) | hardware and reality" \\ // [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \X/ http://bellsouthpwp.net/h/e/heymanj/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
