[SWLUG] can anyone help? Installing avi-xmms

dan dot.dot.dotty.dot at ntlworld.com
Wed Feb 16 11:03:24 UTC 2005


Peter Prior wrote:

> 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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>
>
yeha i think so

[dan at localhost ~]$ rpm -qa |grep gcc
gcc-3.0.4-3
libgcc-3.4.3-4
[dan at localhost ~]$




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