A couple of days ago, I posted a question to this list having to do with problems that I was having with fink. As it happened, I received a few notes, more than one of which indicated that I had not been perspicacious enough to have installed Apple's development tools, as well as lecturing me about the fact that a program could not be expected to compile if no compiler were installed. When I indicated in reply one of these letters that I have been using Apple's development tools ever since the public beta, that I have been using XFree86 for quite awhile, and that I have been using Fink for many months not only to install but also to update programs, no other respondent could figure out what might have been happening.
Since then, I have reinstalled Apple's developer tools, reinstalled XFree86, reinstalled Fink, and tried on numerous occasions to use Fink to install the X Windows programs that I had previously been using, such as Gimp, abiword, g77, and a bunch of others too numerous to mention. Upon these attempts, I have consistently received at the error message to which you refer in your note. No matter what program I install (or more correctly, attempt to install), I always get the same message: >checking whether the C compiler (cc ) works... no >configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler >cannot create executables. However, when I use cc to compile a C program, everything works perfectly. Is it possible that only you and I are having this problem? Or is something rotten in the world of XFree86dom? On Sunday, March 24, 2002, at 01:04 PM, Wayne Wenzlaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I run an all-Mac ISP in the Minneapolis area. I know TONS about OS-9, > but I'm an OS-X 'newbie ' - or maybe that should be 'dumbie'. I'm > trying to follow the instructions, but it runs about so far and then I > get: > > checking whether the C compiler (cc ) works... no > configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler > cannot create executables. > > I've tried this both from my admin user and also logged in as root. I'm > sure I'm doing something stoopid - but I sure don't know what? > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Wayne =================== John Melby Emeritus Professor of Music University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.johnmelby.com ---------- "Suppose you were an idiot . . . And suppose you were a member of Congress . . . But I repeat myself." --Mark Twain _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
