Actually, and pretty strangely, it means EXACTLY what it's saying.

One of the first tests ./configure runs is to make sure that you really have
the tools automake/autoconf ./configure programs require (this is standard
automake/autoconf stuff, not something we've explicitly coded).  e.g. these
lines in configure.in:

AC_PROG_CPP
AC_PROG_CC

One of the tests is to make sure that the c compiler is 'good enough', i.e.
that it accepts ANSI C 77 syntax.  Typically this is the gcc (Gnu C compiler
or a close clone).  Failing that usually means you didn't install gcc.  Or
have a really, really (like 20 year old) version of cc.

As usual, you can look in config.log to see the actual failure message, but
that's not going to help.  You need to install gcc and/or make sure that
normal programs can find it (i.e. check your path)

-----Burton



> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alex
> Francu
> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 11:27 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Ntop] RE:RE: Slackware 9.1 pcap_open_live() (Burton M. Strauss
> III)
>
>
>
>       Hi,
>
>       I'm getting the following error  preceding pcap_open_live() stuff :
>
>       checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... no
>
>       *******************************************************************
>       *
>       * WARNING: Attempting to configure for non ANSI standard C.
>       *
>       *>>> This is unsupported.
>       *>>> It will probably fail.
>       *
>       *    You are welcome to try - but please, keep the ntop-dev
>       *    mailing list updated with your successes or failures...
>       *
>       *******************************************************************
>
>       Is this somehow related to pcap error ?
>       What does this mean and what can i do?
>
>       Thanks
>       Alex

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