Path to 'c' compiler, eh ??

[Des Cavin]

New install of Suse 10.0, I am having trouble installing software. When
I rune the Big 3 (./configure, make, make install, in 'su' ) after
ruminations I get the following error message:

configure: error: no acceptable c compiler found in $path',

I am out of ideas and have several software packages I wish to install,
could someone please help me please ???

thanks and regards
DesCavin..............................................................

[Some Dude]

Seems that you don't have gcc or another C compiler installed, or the
binary is installed outside of $PATH. Check that you have installed the
development packages. I'm not familiar with Suse, so I can't say much more.

Post by Des Cavin
New install of Suse 10.0, I am having trouble installing software. When
I rune the Big 3 (./configure, make, make install, in 'su' ) after
configure: error: no acceptable c compiler found in $path',
I am out of ideas and have several software packages I wish to install,
could someone please help me please ???
thanks and regards
DesCavin..............................................................

[Des Cavin]

Hi 'Some-Dude',
thanks for the reply, the funny thing is
that I've installed Suse 10 on laptop too with the exact same response
eh??? :-(

Post by Some Dude
Seems that you don't have gcc or another C compiler installed, or the
binary is installed outside of $PATH. Check that you have installed
the development packages. I'm not familiar with Suse, so I can't say
much more.

Post by Des Cavin
New install of Suse 10.0, I am having trouble installing software.
When I rune the Big 3 (./configure, make, make install, in 'su' )
configure: error: no acceptable c compiler found in $path',
I am out of ideas and have several software packages I wish to
install, could someone please help me please ???
thanks and regards
DesCavin..............................................................

[Some Dude]

Post by Des Cavin
Hi 'Some-Dude',
thanks for the reply, the funny thing is
that I've installed Suse 10 on laptop too with the exact same response
eh??? :-(

I've only installed Suse once, and that was about 6 years ago. From my
experience, most distributions have "install types" such as workstation,
server, minimal, etc. I also know that some distributions have a
"development" install, which includes compilers, headers, libraries,
etc. If you've installed something along the lines of workstation and
there was no mention of development, it could be that such packages were
left out because of the install type.

I really don't remember how the RPM system works, much less Yast (or
what Suse uses), but I'd try to "locate" gcc. If nothing worth while is
found, I'd load-up the CD/DVD, and manually install the missing files,
such as gcc-x.y.z-vv.i586.rpm and glibc-devel-x.y.z-vv.i586.rpm.