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Nigel Jones commented on RANGER-1563: ------------------------------------- Ok I'll ask again. But happy to propose this change, good practice for next time :-) > Ranger build needs gcc... docs/validation > ----------------------------------------- > > Key: RANGER-1563 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RANGER-1563 > Project: Ranger > Issue Type: Bug > Components: documentation > Reporter: Nigel Jones > > When building ranger on a new Linux system I had a build failure, caused by > [INFO] Executed tasks > [INFO] > [INFO] --- native-maven-plugin:1.0-alpha-8:compile (default-compile) @ > credValidator --- > [INFO] /bin/sh -c cd /home/cloudusr/src/ranger/unixauthnative && gcc > -I/home/cloudusr/src/ranger/unixauthnative/src/main/c -o > /home/cloudusr/src/ranger/unixauthnative/target/objs/credValidator.o -c > /home/cloudusr/src/ranger/unixauthnative/src/main/c/credValidator.c > /bin/sh: 1: gcc: not found > Clearly gcc is needed. Along with java, maven. Listing these prereqs would be > useful > Suggest we update the docs at http://ranger.apache.org/quick_start_guide.html > to make this prereq clear. > Ideally update maven to do a check early on -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)