On Sun, 05 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> When asking for help about particular errors, you need to quote the
> **complete** line that contains the error message. My **guess** is that it
> reads:
> 
>         "bash: gcc: command not found"
> 
> If this **guess** is right, it means that you either don't have the C
> compiler gcc on your system or it is not in your command path. The fix is
> either to install it or add its location to your PATH environment variable.
> 
> If I am **guessing** wrong, then you need to tell us the complete error
> message. If it comes after some other output, the preceding couple of lines
> might also be informative. But in any case, you need to be telling us what
> program is giving the error, and what command the error message refers to. 

Now i'm getting confused here, what you say makes sence Ray, but in a later
message i received an answer to a question about the version of gcc. the answer
is;

> > gcc --version tells the version number.
> >
> 
> ecs-2.91.66

Huum, it gets more confusing by the mail ;-)


> At 07:35 PM 12/5/99 +0000, John Marr wrote:
> >   I am having trouble compiling the tulip.c module.  I downloaded the
> >latest edition of it and ran the exact command line at the bottom of the
> >file but I get a return that "command not found."  I really don't
> >understand why this is the case.  I have compiled the older module (but
> >I recieved errors that there was an open ended if ... then statement) so
> >why wouldn't gcc compile this?
> >
> >    Yes, I made sure I typed the exact command line... I even went into
> >GNOME and copy/pasted the line into the terminal.  I really have no idea
> >what to do now.
> >
> >    The command I used is:   "gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -Wall
> >-Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c tulip.c `[ -f
> >/usr/include/linux/modversions.h ] && echo -DMODVERSIONS`"
> 
> ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
> Ray Olszewski                                        -- Han Solo
> Palo Alto, CA                                  [EMAIL PROTECTED]        
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