On 6 Nov 2012, at 15:56, Dominic Hargreaves <dominic.hargrea...@it.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> I imagine the quickest way to proceed will be to first run > > apt-get install gcc > > as root. > > However I am a bit confused as to why gcc is being required, as I > don't believe any native code is being compiled. Does autotools just > assume that it will be needed at some point or is it left over from > long ago when there were SUID wrappers? Perhaps, but it's effectively required for when you come to the 'make fixdeps' stage, since you will almost certainly need a functional C compiler to build a lot of the perl modules that RT needs. So even though none of RT itself is in C, some of the things the installation process does need a C compiler. Tim -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. -------- We're hiring! http://bestpractical.com/jobs
