Help with garnome

[Rizzo]

OK - Gnome 2.4 is out and I want to try it, and the best way apparently is to use garnome. I can figure out roughly what to do, but I have a problem. When running 'make install' as instructed I get this error at the end (everything else seems to run fine)


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-1.4... found
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake-1.4... found
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... missing
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for Cygwin environment... no
checking for mingw32 environment... no
checking how to run the C preprocessor... /lib/cpp
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... cc
checking whether the C compiler (cc -I/root/garnome/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -L/root/garnome/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -O2 -pipe -L/root/garnome/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables.
make[6]: *** [configure-work/main.d/pkgconfig-0.15.0/configure] Error 1
make[6]: Leaving directory `/root/garnome-0.27.1/bootstrap/pkgconfig'
make[5]: *** [../../bootstrap/pkgconfig/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[5]: Leaving directory `/root/garnome-0.27.1/gnome/glib'
make[4]: *** [../../gnome/glib/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory `/root/garnome-0.27.1/mono/mono'
make[3]: *** [../../mono/mono/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/garnome-0.27.1/mono/gtk-sharp'
make[2]: *** [../../mono/gtk-sharp/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/garnome-0.27.1/mono/monodoc'
make[1]: *** [install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/garnome-0.27.1/mono'
make: *** [install] Error 2


I have no idea what all this crap means, but since it says error everywhere I don't think it is meant to happen.

There is nothing on the garnome website that I can see that relates to this, so I have turned to the old TGC for help. HELP ME!

[X-Calibur]

You need to be root (su) for make install to work. That being said you probably already know this.
So the problem is with the C compiler. It wierdly enought is not always installed depending on the distro you use. It would be useful to know what Distro you have. Then try installing the C compiler from your Linux CD, it's there somewhere.

If all of the above has been taken care of... well we need Wayne aka Psycho Penguin....

HTH

X'

[Rizzo]

I'm using Red Hat 9, and I know now that it is that the C compiler is not installed - found that information somewhere else on the internet.

When I put the RH CD in though and try and get it to install the C compiler, it says I need to install two other packages, but it doesn't want to find these itself. I'll have a look round the CD and see where they are (they must be on there somewhere).

[Miles]

You might try posting at dnar's other hangout (http://www.linuxcult.com/) too.

[Rizzo]

OK. When trying to install gcc from the RH9 CD package manager thing it says that two packages are needed, but not found on my system. These are:

krb5-libs
openssl

I've tried to download these off the internet, but I can't seem to get them to work. Any ideas ?