Thanks for providing that info and the quick response. When I have some downtime at work, I'm going to try everything you mentioned pronto. As for Fedora, I am going to switch to a different distribution pretty soon. I took a Linux + class about 5 months ago and Fedora is the distribution that the instructor gave us to load in class.
On Jan 26, 7:26 am, Andrew Kesterson <[email protected]> wrote: > > downloaded the > > fileshttp://cudlug.cudenver.edu/GNU/gnu/gcc/gcc-3.4.3/gcc-3.4.3.tar.bz2 > > andhttp://cudlug.cudenver.edu/GNU/gnu/gcc/gcc-3.4.3/gcc-core-3.4.3.tar.bz2 > > > Uncompressed and extracted the files:tar xjvf gcc-g++-3.4.3.tar.bz2 ; > > tar xjvf gcc-core-3.4.3.tar.bz2 > > > Changed to the directory created after the download. > > > When I try and run the "./configure" file I receive the error response > > again: "no acceptable C Compiler found in $PATH." > > GCC, ironically enough, is built by itself - that is to say, you have > to have GCC, in order to build GCC. Ever since the first GCC was built > with binutils (I think it was binutils - anyone around when the first > GCC was built, was it compiled with binutils or the 'cc' on a unix > box?), the previous version of GCC builds the next version, and so on. > So without a C compiler, you'll never be able to build GCC from source. > > Anyways, skipping the history lesson, google is your friend. > > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&fkt=619&fsdt=4683&q=fedora+9+insta... > > It looks like fedora 9 ships with GCC 4.3 by default. What output did > your 'yum' commands give you? Do a 'locate gcc | grep bin' or 'find / > -name gcc', and one of those will definitely give you the location of > GCC if you actually have it. If those turn up a gcc binary somewhere, > then it's just an issue of setting your PATH to include that directory > ('which' only looks inside of the $PATH environment variable, so if your > path is screwy, it'll break). If you indeed don't have gcc installed, > and yum (for whatever reason) refuses to work, you'll have to download a > binary gcc version from rpmfind.net. Just search for 'gcc' and install > what comes up for your version with 'rpm -ihv (rpm filenames)'. That > should get you up and running. > > (FWIW, on a personal note, Fedora sucks balls. Ditch it for a real > distro like one of the Ubuntu flavors, and you'll be free of the > nightmare of RPM hunting.) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CHAOS706.ORG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chaos706?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
