Danny,
Thanks for your help. I am running RedHat 6.1, and yes I did a custom
install. Therefore, I suspect you are right in that I didn't install
the compiliers. Those are probably in the development tools which I
didn't select. I will give er a shot, thank you!
Trevor Hellman (part burrito, part man)
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Danny wrote:
>
> Hello, in order for me to assist you I need to know the answers to the
> following question :-
>
> 1) What version of Redhat are you running?
> 2) Did you perform workstation, server, custom install?
>
> I suspect :-
>
> the problem is you ran the custom installation of linux. (Server, Workstation
> used to trash your existing partition now RH6.1 doesn't)
> and if you don't select "everything" in the custom install it won't install the
> C Compiler for you.
>
> Solution to your problem :-
>
> Goto www.rpmfind.net and get the RPM for cc or gcc.
>
> Looking forward to your feedback.
>
> dannyh
>
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> On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Trevor Hellman wrote:
> > Hi, I am new to Linux and am having problems trying to install anything.
> > I've tried the rpms but after I going thru numerous failed dependencies, one
> > of them invariably has encounters an error. So I've tried just compiling
> > the sources. The problem is when I do the ./configure, it either tells me
> > to specify the host type or will not find a useable gcc or cc. I have a
> > cyrix 75 processor, so I try --host i386-cyrix-linux and other variations,
> > but it still does not work. This is happening with numerous programs that I
> > try to install. Any suggestions to get this working?
> >
> > Trevor Hellman
> > www.wtp.net/~hellman
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> >
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