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

[Ed Hill]

On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 13:26, 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.


It looks like you either don't have a compiler installed or the user
doesn't have it in their path.  Does the command "rpm -qa | grep gcc"
return anything?

And its generally a good idea to build things as a non-root user and
then switch to root just to do the install.

hth,
Ed

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