[Fabiogump]

okay a few weeks ago I posted I was having a problem installing RPM's with Suse Yast2. I think I found out why.

I have been having some limited success compiling a few programs from source. Firefox is one and the other was realplayer.

When I tried to compile gaim I get this when I enter ./configure

checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
/home/XXXXX/My: /home/XXXXX/My: No such file or directory
configure: WARNING: `missing' script is too old or missing
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no
checking for sed... /usr/bin/sed
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.

Okay linux gurus, what's wrong with this picture? Oh I'm running Suse 9.1 home.

[AGCurry]

Originally Posted by Fabiogump

configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH

What do you see when you

echo $PATH

?

What happens when you just enter "cc" or "gcc" on the command line?

[Fabiogump]

here's my last shell session with you suggestion;

@linux:~> cd '/home/XXXXX/My Downloads/gaim-1.5.0'
@linux:~/My Downloads/gaim-1.5.0> echo $path

@linux:~/My Downloads/gaim-1.5.0> gcc
bash: gcc: command not found
@linux:~/My Downloads/gaim-1.5.0> cc
bash: cc: command not found
@linux:~/My Downloads/gaim-1.5.0> cl
bash: cl: command not found

[AGCurry]

Originally Posted by Fabiogump

here's my last shell session with you suggestion;

@linux:~> cd '/home/XXXXX/My Downloads/gaim-1.5.0'
@linux:~/My Downloads/gaim-1.5.0> echo $path

@linux:~/My Downloads/gaim-1.5.0> gcc
bash: gcc: command not found
@linux:~/My Downloads/gaim-1.5.0> cc
bash: cc: command not found
@linux:~/My Downloads/gaim-1.5.0> cl
bash: cl: command not found

Well, your first problem is that the programs you need to compile need to [exist and] be in your path. And, by the way, "path" is different from "PATH".

Find out what directory gcc (or cc) is in and add it to your path:

export PATH=${PATH}:/whatever/directory

[aewarnick]

I'm having this same exact problem with Linspire. How do I find where the gcc compiler is? Or if it is even there at all.

[aewarnick]

Here is some output:

andrew@Wintergreen:~$ echo $PATH
/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/share/qt3/bin
andrew@Wintergreen:~$ whereis gcc
gcc:
andrew@Wintergreen:~$ whereis cc
cc:
andrew@Wintergreen:~$ whereis icc
icc:


I can't use my install cd, it seems to be messed up. It was made by Linspire and shipped with my computer, so burning it again is not an option.

Can I download gcc already compiled somewhere for linux?

[AGCurry]

find / -name 'gcc' -print
find / -name 'cc' -print

[aewarnick]

Wintergreen:/home/andrew# find / -name 'gcc' -print
/home/andrew/gcc-2.8-dist/etc/default/gcc
/home/andrew/gcc-2.8-dist/usr/local/bin/gcc
/home/andrew/gcc-2.8-dist/usr/local/lib/front-fsf/gcc
/home/gcc-4.0.2/gcc
/home/gcc-4.0.2/gcc/testsuite/ada/acats/tests/gcc
Wintergreen:/home/andrew# find / -name 'cc' -print
/usr/share/locale/l10n/cc
/home/gcc-4.0.2/gcc/testsuite/ada/acats/tests/cc
Wintergreen:/home/andrew# /usr/share/locale/l10n/cc
bash: /usr/share/locale/l10n/cc: is a directory
Wintergreen:/home/andrew# cd /usr/share/locale/l10n/cc
Wintergreen:/usr/share/locale/l10n/cc# ls
entry.desktop flag.png
Wintergreen:/usr/share/locale/l10n/cc#


The gcc you see in the list in /home is one I downloaded that I don't think will work for my system. The only gcc file is has is a gcc.sh file.

[aewarnick]

I'm also downloading this file:
ftp://ftp.thewrittenword.com/package...4.3.rpm4.tar.Z

I'm not sure it will work either. What do you think?

[AGCurry]

Andrew -
The last entry in your PATH should be . , so you can run a program in the current directory.
You definitely HAVE gcc, it's just not in your PATH. Try adding
/home/andrew/gcc-2.8-dist/usr/local/bin/
to your PATH. Then, enter "gcc". You should get a message saying something like
"no input files".
Good luck.

[aewarnick]

The only program in there that may be cc is called cc1. It's in with other programs like:
cc1obj, cc1plus, cpp.

Should I just rename it to cc?

[aewarnick]

I may have found gcc in there in a wierd place. Let me give it a try to see if it will compile programs. I'll get back to you.

[aewarnick]

ERROR! C compiler cannot create executables

Anyone have a gcc setup that works that you can get to me somehow?

[jiml8]

Originally Posted by AGCurry

Andrew -
The last entry in your PATH should be . , so you can run a program in the current directory.
You definitely HAVE gcc, it's just not in your PATH. Try adding
/home/andrew/gcc-2.8-dist/usr/local/bin/
to your PATH. Then, enter "gcc". You should get a message saying something like
"no input files".
Good luck.

NO!!

Never EVER do that!

You should NEVER have ANY directory for which you have write privileges in your path. To do so is to create a massive security hole in your system.

If you do so, you make it possible in principle for a bad guy to trick you into executing his bad program which you have inadvertantly written to a directory that is in your path.

If you want to execute a program in the current directory just invoke it with the ./ syntax. This is simple enough and prevents any possibility of a problem.

OP needs to download a compiled gcc. I think he is downloading source; lacking a c compiler, he can't compile a c compiler. I don't know where that will be found for linspire.

[AGCurry]

Originally Posted by jiml8

NO!!

Never EVER do that!

You should NEVER have ANY directory for which you have write privileges in your path. To do so is to create a massive security hole in your system.

If you do so, you make it possible in principle for a bad guy to trick you into executing his bad program which you have inadvertantly written to a directory that is in your path.

If you want to execute a program in the current directory just invoke it with the ./ syntax. This is simple enough and prevents any possibility of a problem.

OP needs to download a compiled gcc. I think he is downloading source; lacking a c compiler, he can't compile a c compiler. I don't know where that will be found for linspire.

With due respect, and not to hijack the thread, that is just ridiculous.

It is true that "." should be the LAST entry in PATH, for this reason, so that you don't execute a suspect ./cat instead of /usr/bin/cat, for example.

I've been working as a professional software engineer in Unix, for many companies and the federal government, since 1987. PATH has ALWAYS included the current directory. Not to do so will hamstring you as a user and developer.