Hello,
After learning the rudiments of Linux, I got to the point where I want
to compile code, eg., to create a custom kernel and to install
Wine. However, I ran into problems when I attempted both ... I have
Conectiva Linux 3.0 (some sort of Red Hat), with kernel 2.0.36-12cl.
I downloaded wine-991212.tar.gz and installed it. When I tried to
run the configure script, it got to the point where it says "checking
for whether the C compiler (gcc) works ..." and the script halted
with the message "C compiler cannot create executables."
I'm a DOS programmer, so I figured that maybe there was a
problem with the linker. After exploring the system for a while, I
discovered that the GNU linker is called ld, which was already
installed. Since I couldn't find any info on setting up the compiler
and/or the linker, I left it there. Any suggestions? All the programs
on my box have been installed with rpm, which I guess sets all the
directories and links correctly, right?
Then I found the kernel sources, version 2.0.36-12cl. I installed the
package and followed the instructions on the README and the
Kernel-HOWTO. However, I couldn't run make menuconfig because
the script stopped with the following messages after invoking gcc
to compile lxdialog.c :
dialog.h:22: sys/types.h: No such file or directory
(...)
dialog.h:25: ctype.h: No such file or directory
dialog.h:26: stdlib.h: No such file or directory
dialog.h:26: string.h: No such file or directory
Why can't the compiler find the standard header files? I checked
with rpm and the kernel-headers package is installed. What am I
doing wrong?
I would send an exact transcription of the error messages, but I
don't know how to redirect stderr to a file ... :-(
Thanks in advance,
Jerem�as Galletti
