[SWLUG] can anyone help? Installing avi-xmms

[Peter Prior]

Do you have gcc installed ?

you can check by doing: rpm -qa |grep gcc

If you haven't - install it.  If it is installed, run: file /usr/bin/gcc and see 
what it gives you.

The only time I've seen that before is where the binary file (program) has been 
compiled for the wrong architecture / os, but I could be wrong.

Pete

dan wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> can anyone answer this one for me please? as i have spent a whole day 
> trying to work this out sorry i am a bit of a noob
> 
> [dan at localhost avi-xmms-1.2.3]$ ./configure && make && make install
> loading cache ./config.cache
> checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
> checking for working aclocal... found
> checking for working autoconf... found
> checking for working automake... found
> checking for working autoheader... found
> checking for working makeinfo... missing
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... no
> configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler 
> cannot create executables.
> [dan at localhost avi-xmms-1.2.3]$
> 
> and the config.log shows:-
> 
> This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
> running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
> 
> configure:752: checking for a BSD compatible install
> configure:805: checking whether build environment is sane
> configure:862: checking whether make sets ${MAKE}
> configure:908: checking for working aclocal
> configure:921: checking for working autoconf
> configure:934: checking for working automake
> configure:947: checking for working autoheader
> configure:960: checking for working makeinfo
> configure:1026: checking for gcc
> configure:1139: checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works
> configure:1155: gcc -o conftest    conftest.c  1>&5
> ./configure: line 1154: /usr/bin/gcc: cannot execute binary file
> configure: failed program was:
> 
> #line 1150 "configure"
> #include "confdefs.h"
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Dan
> 
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