On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 07:29:41PM -0600, Darth Buck wrote:
> OK you gurus out there, I have a problem compiling. Here is a brief
> history. RH6.1. I am trying to install MySQL, and realized I didn't
> have gcc installed. I couldn't find anything on the 6.1 disk so I used
> the RPMs from the 5.2 disk to get gcc installed. Then I tried to run
> the configurator file for MySQL again and it told me that I didn't have
> c++ installed. I found those RPMs and libraries and installed them. I
> ran the configurator file again. It did alot of checking but died again
> and now I am getting this error.
>
You might want to uninstall the RH 5.2 compilers, as RH 6.1
includes more current (not current, but closer) compilers...
I believe the packages you want are egcs-somethingoranother.rpm
and egcs-c++-something.rpm ( sorry don't know exact names, I've
never used RedHat).
gcc names are really weird... there was a fork a little
while ago, the compilers were called egcs. Then gcc handed
developement to egcs, then they made gcc no longer mean
'Gnu C compiler' and renamed it to 'GNU Compiler Collection'
so that now, gcc is called gcc again, but no distribution that I
know of, except Debian ships with them.
they went from gcc 2.7.2.3 -> egcs-1.x.x -> gcc 2.95.x
most distributions are now shipping stuff from egcs,
which leads to confusion when looking for gcc packages :-) .
see:
http://gcc.gnu.org/fom_serv/cache/8.html
for a somewhat allright explanation.
> checking for termcap functions library... configure: error: No
> curses/termcap library found
>
> This is the first time I have compiled anything and I cannot get past
> this step. What do I not have installed that I need. I looked for info
> on termcap, but just found some stuff on a termcap file in the /etc (I
> think) directory.
>
you need an ncurses developement library...
you can grab one at:
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/redhat-6.1/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ncurses-devel-4.2-25.i386.rpm
but it should be on your RH 6.1 CD.
> Thanks in advance
>
> DarthBuck.
have fun,
greg
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