The configure error your getting is in the fact that you don't appear to have
gcc (the GNU C Compiler) installed. Look in /usr/bin for gcc and see if it's
there, if not, pop in the install CD and install the gcc package.
Tom
On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> When I tried your command './configure 2>
> filename.txt' I got this:
>
> configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH
>
> otherwise here is what I get when I try to install any
> tared program.
>
> loading cache ./config.cache
> checking host system type... i586-pc-linux-gnuoldld
> checking target system type...i586-pc-linux-gnuoldld
> checking build system type...i586-pc-linux-gnuoldld
> checking for a BSD compatible install...
> /user/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... no
> checking for working ac local...missing
> checking for working autoconfig...missing
> checking for working automake...missing
> checking for working autoheader...missing
> checking for working ac local...missing
> checking for working makeinfo...missing
> checking for a C-Compiler...
> checking for a gcc... no
> checking for a cc... no
> checking for a xlc... no
> configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH
>
> there it is. Thanks for your help.
> Mark
>
> --- "Stephen F. Bosch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > mark willenbring wrote:
> >
> > > I have just installed Mandrake 7.0 with the
> > standard
> > > install. I am trying to install Word Perfect,
> > > Abiword, Star Office and Siag. None of these
> > programs
> > > are installing. If I want to do a rpm off of the
> > cd
> > > it installs just fine. When ever I do a
> > ./configure
> > > on some of the programs above it runs through a
> > few
> > > lines and errors out. I feel like I am missing
> > some
> > > libraries but I have since installed all that I
> > think
> > > I need like libc5 for older i386 applications.
> > Any
> > > ideas would be appreciated.
> > > Thanks Mark.
> >
> > Can you try those again, but this time pipe stderr
> > to a file?
> >
> > Like so:
> >
> > ./configure 2> filename.txt
> >
> > and attach the file to an e-mail to the list.
> >
> > -Stephen-
> >
> >
> >
>
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