[Cumbria] Developers Tools

[Chris Plant]

On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 18:30, Mat Brunt wrote:
> Everytime I try to install a file from the ./configure and make commands 
> it complains of having no developers tools to do it with.
> 
> So I try to be sneaky, go to the packages GUI and choose to install the 
> developers tools (this is under RH8 btw).
> Then it complains I'm missing the packages 'cyrus-sasl' and 'krb5-libs'.
Which developer tools, you need automake, autoconf, gcc, glibc-devel,
and maybe some dependancies.
> 
> Looking at the installation documentation for cyrus-sasl I have to untar 
> the file I've just downloaded and run ./configure on it.
> But don't I need the developers tools in the first place to do that?
> I don't know if I'm just being daft but I think I've got myself in a 
> catch 22 situation here!
You have to install the binary (RPM) packages of m4. automake and so on
to be able to use them, then you can build whatever you want.

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Chris Plant <chris@monkeyircd.org>
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