[Techtalk] RH8--no gcc??

[Rebecca Heyer]

I haven't tried to install RH 8.0 myself, but based on my roommate's 
experience and reports I have seen on local mail lists it appears to be 
crippled from the perspective of the average desktop user. RH's VP of 
Marketing spoke at ITEC Austin a few weeks ago and stopped by the Austin 
Linux Group booth, where I was able to talk to him for a few minutes, and 
asked about their decision to drop out all MPG3 decoders. RH's strategy is 
very focused on large corporate users with centralized IT support. Their 
field tests focused on commericial apps like Oracle and SAS, and they have 
become very sensative to licensing and royalty issues. It may be that gcc is 
no longer installed by default, but instead must be selected.If gcc is not 
present, make usually looks for another C compiler, and cc is the most common 
name for them. Also, a few ionstallations rename or alias gcc to cc.

 On Saturday 19 October 2002 15:06, lain iwakura wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> I recently installed RedHat 8.0 on my laptop and was about to install the
> driver for my Synaptics touchpad.  I ran a configure script before the
> installation and received the following messages:
> 
> gcc--not found
> cc--not found
> 
> [misc error messages here]
> 
> I'm a little confused--the last two RH I've installed, gnu gcc always
> came with the distro.  This is the first time I received this kind of
> error when attempting to install.  I did 'which' and 'whereis' gcc but no
> luck.  Is this a default for RH 8 (if it is, that stinks) that I have to
> go to GNU and install, or maybe they changed the default path?
> 
> Also, what is cc?
> 
> Any help will be great--I can't use rpms all the time...  thanks in
> advance.
> 
> --lain
> 
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-- 
Rebecca Heyer

"I'm not suffering from insanity -
	I enjoy every minute of it"



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-- 
Rebecca Heyer

"I'm not suffering from insanity -
	I enjoy every minute of it"