At 07:45 PM 4/7/2005 +0000, Jeremy Abbott wrote: [...]
I bought Suse about a year ago. Very nice Distro with package management through Yast. My problem with it though, was that it does not come with a C compiler. If all youare installing is binary packeges, that's fine. I wanted to do some compiling from source though.
Are you sure of this, Jeremy?
I just checked the online package repository for SuSE at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/current/suse/i586, and there I see all the usual compiler packages ... for example: gcc (the C compiler), g++ (the C++ variant of gcc), the *-devel header files for the libraries, gdb (the standard debugger) and ddd (its X frontend).
I suspect that either what you bought was a limited subset of SuSE ... possible, I suppose, since the iso image for the full distro is about 3.5 GB, requiring a DVD to hold it ... or you misunderstood the docs that came with what you got.
I can't recall ever seeing a full-size Linux distro that did not include the full suite of compilers it needed to compile all its own source. If nothing else, you need this to compile custom kernels, a fairly common activity among experienced users of all distros.
And as we all know, anyone who provides you with a CD or DVD of binaries needs to provide you with access to the associated source, at least for the GPL'd packages.
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