[CLUE-Tech] I think I got an error - (ALSA Install)

[Adam Bultman]

Judging by the error, you don't have any compilers installed on your 
system - which is odd.

First things first: Do this:

box~$ gcc

If you get an error instead of 'gcc: no input files' you may not have gcc 
installed.

You might try doing :

updatedb (or locate -u, depending on your system)
locate gcc (find something in the bin directories)
or:
locate g++
or:
locate cc


If you don't have gcc, you need it to compile anything on your system. 
It's odd that mandrake left it out, because it's pretty useful.  If you 
don't have it, find the RPMs for it and install it. Then, you can start 
working on getting ALSA set up. (or, just alsa rpms, if they exist)

Good luck!  I never did like Mandrake's package selection, sinc it left 
stuff like that out (Redhat, too).  The 'slidebar' style selection (a la 
the last mandrake install I did) wasn't very good inasmuch as it left a 
LOT Of key packages out.  

Adam


-- 
adamb at glaven.org
[ www.glaven.org ]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Joe Linux wrote:

> Okay, I think I got an error.  Is it in fact an error?  Please note even 
> though this says "root at Knoppix," it's actually on a Mandrake 9.1 box and 
> the "root at Knoppix," stuff is a DHCP artifact.  All of this points up the 
> need at least in my mind for a novice install fest on how to install  
> programs  downloaded from the internet which are more or less generic to 
> all Linux distrubutions.
> 
> [root at Knoppix alsa]# cd alsa-lib-0.9.1*
> [root at Knoppix alsa-lib-0.9.1]# ./configure;make;make install
> checking build system type... i586-pc-linux-gnuoldld
> checking host system type... i586-pc-linux-gnuoldld
> checking target system type... i586-pc-linux-gnuoldld
> checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking for mawk... no
> checking for gawk... gawk
> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
> checking for gcc... no
> checking for cc... no
> checking for cc... no
> checking for cl... no
> configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH
> make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
> make: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.
> 
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