On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 11:03:39AM -0500, Daniel & Kim Cotter wrote: > I ran the ./configure command, and the results are about 15 lines of > errors, all meaning that it can't find the C compiler. I do have the > gcc package installed; is it possible the path to it is not listed?
gcc is necessary, but rarely sufficient, to compile anything. You most likely need a whole mess of header files for various libraries sometimes referred to generically as the "development" files for those libraries. The naming scheme is somewhat different on rpm-based systems from what I recall, but to give you the general flavor of what kind of thing you're looking for, one of my Debian stable systems has the following development files: $ dpkg -l | grep lib.*dev ii libao-dev 0.8.2-1 Cross Platform Audio Output Library Developm ii libc6-dev 2.2.5-11.5 GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Hea ii libglib1.2-dev 1.2.10-4 Development files for GLib library ii libgtk1.2-dev 1.2.10-11 Development files for the GIMP Toolkit ii libjpeg62-dev 6b-5 Development files for the IJG JPEG library ii libkrb5-dev 1.2.4-5woody5 Headers and development libraries for MIT Ke ii libpam0g-dev 0.72-35 Development files for PAM ii libpng2-dev 1.0.12-3.woody PNG library - development ii libreadline4-d 4.2a-5 GNU readline and history libraries, developm ii libssl-dev 0.9.6c-2.woody SSL development libraries, header files and ii libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-11woody The GNU stdc++ library (development files) ii libtiff3g-dev 3.5.5-6 Tag Image File Format library, development f ii libwn-dev 6.0-12 Many numerical and memory management functio ii libwxbase2.2-d 2.2.9.2 wxBase library (development) - non-GUI suppo ii ncbi-tools6-de 6.1.20011220a- NCBI libraries for biology applications (dev ii xlibmesa-dev 4.1.0-16woody3 XFree86 version of Mesa 3D graphics library ii xlibs-dev 4.1.0-16woody3 X Window System client library development f ii zlib1g-dev 1.1.4-1.0woody compression library - development (If I recall correctly, Redhat uses -devel instead of -dev in the names of these kinds of packages) So, you should look at your error messages and see if you can find -devel files that provide what the compilation is missing. If you're lucky, there won't be any irresolvable version incompatilities--you'll just be able to install more "stuff" and get it to Just Work. Good luck, -- Joe
