[SWLUG] can anyone help? Installing avi-xmms

[Peter Prior]

What does file /usr/bin/gcc give you?
Try running gcc on its own and see what that gives you.  it should be 
something like "no input files".

Pete

dan wrote:

> 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 ~]$
>