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Drakain Zeil
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Hello, I am new to Linux and Mandrake in general, however I believe I´ve gotten a good grip on how the OS works, however I´m still having difficulties.

 

When I try to install (anyhting really) from a tar file, (after I have extracted it´s contents) I recive the following error when attempting to ¨make¨ the file.

 

g++    -c -o being.o being.cpp

make: g++: Command not found

make: *** [being.o] Error 127

 

This is obviously a problem for me since I can´t install tar programs, and I have no idea what this error means, if anyone here can tell me how to fix this, and/or what it means, that would be great.

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There are three steps when you want to compile from source:

 

-1- ./configure

-2- make

-3- (as root) make install

 

Step 1 checks if you have all the neccesary programs and files that you need to 'make' the new application

 

Step 2 builds the new application

 

Step 3 installs the newly build application.

 

It seems you haven't done step 1 and some things are missing for the app to build. So do ./configure and install all the missing (probably xxx-devel.rpm) packages.

 

Good luck.

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When I try to install (anyhting really) from a tar file, (after I have extracted it´s contents) I recive the following error when attempting to ¨make¨ the file.

 

g++    -c -o being.o being.cpp

make: g++: Command not found

make: *** [being.o] Error 127

 

This is obviously a problem for me since I can´t install tar programs, and I have no idea what this error means, if anyone here can tell me how to fix this, and/or what it means, that would be great.

urpmf g++

will tell you the pkg/s to install

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Run this and see if you get the same output:

 

$ rpm -qa | grep gcc

gcc-c++-3.3.2-6mdk

gcc-cpp-3.3.2-6mdk

libgcc1-3.3.2-6mdk

gcc-3.3.2-6mdk

 

 

If not, you don't have some of the necessary compiler packages installed. Install the missing ones and try again. The above is for mdk10. Judging fromn your output I would guess you don't have the C++ compiler installed which is the first listed package.

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Okay, since nothing has worked so far... I've got some logs and such that I hope will help.

 

When I go through some programs, ./configure won't work normaly...

 

[brian@sympatico pppoe-0.2]$ dir

LICENSE  Makefile  pppoe.c  README

[brian@sympatico pppoe-0.2]$ ./configure

bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

[brian@sympatico pppoe-0.2]$ make

make: Makefile: Permission denied

make: *** No targets.  Stop.

[brian@sympatico pppoe-0.2]$ su

Password:

[root@sympatico pppoe-0.2]# make install

make: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.

[root@sympatico pppoe-0.2]# make

cc -Wall -pedantic -ansi -O2  -c -o pppoe.o pppoe.c

make: cc: Command not found

make: *** [pppoe.o] Error 127

[root@sympatico pppoe-0.2]# exit

exit

[brian@sympatico pppoe-0.2]$

 

When I go though one that works with it (a game, actually, without a normal make file oddly), I get this...

 

[brian@sympatico raptor-1.2.0]$ ./configure

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c

checking whether build environment is sane... yes

checking for gawk... gawk

checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes

checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes

checking for g++... no

checking for c++... n

checking for gpp... no

checking for aCC... no

checking for CC... no

checking for cxx... no

checking for cc++... no

checking for cl... no

checking for FCC... no

checking for KCC... no

checking for RCC... no

checking for xlC_r... no

checking for xlC... no

checking for C++ compiler default output file name... configure: error: C++ compiler cannot create executables

See `config.log' for more details.

[brian@sympatico raptor-1.2.0]

 

config.log is an attachment.... (changed to .txt, so I can upload it)

 

I attempted running this:

 

$ rpm -qa | grep gcc

gcc-c++-3.3.2-6mdk

gcc-cpp-3.3.2-6mdk

libgcc1-3.3.2-6mdk

gcc-3.3.2-6mdk

 

And got this...

 

[brian@sympatico brian]$ $ rpm -qa | grep gcc

bash: $: command not found

[brian@sympatico brian]$ gcc-c++-3.3.2-6mdk

bash: gcc-c++-3.3.2-6mdk: command not found

[brian@sympatico brian]$ gcc-cpp-3.3.2-6mdk

bash: gcc-cpp-3.3.2-6mdk: command not found

[brian@sympatico brian]$ libgcc1-3.3.2-6mdk

bash: libgcc1-3.3.2-6mdk: command not found

[brian@sympatico brian]$ gcc-3.3.2-6mdk

bash: gcc-3.3.2-6mdk: command not found

[brian@sympatico brian]$ su

Password:

[root@sympatico brian]# $ rpm -qa | grep gcc

bash: $: command not found

[root@sympatico brian]# gcc-c++-3.3.2-6mdk

bash: gcc-c++-3.3.2-6mdk: command not found

[root@sympatico brian]# gcc-cpp-3.3.2-6mdk

bash: gcc-cpp-3.3.2-6mdk: command not found

[root@sympatico brian]# libgcc1-3.3.2-6mdk

bash: libgcc1-3.3.2-6mdk: command not found

[root@sympatico brian]# gcc-3.3.2-6mdk

bash: gcc-3.3.2-6mdk: command not found

[root@sympatico brian]#

 

And when I run urpmf g++, I recive a list that is the attachment "Netlog.txt"

 

I'm not sure what packages I'm missing, it seems that I am... How do I find out what they are, and where do I get them?

config.txt

Netlog.txt

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It's clear to me you don't have your C++ compiler installed and possibly other packages.

 

[brian@sympatico brian]$ $ rpm -qa | grep gcc

 

That's wrong. You should run:

 

[brian@sympatico brian]$ rpm -qa | grep gcc

 

Then you will get some output. You inadvertantly stuck the "$" in the command. I left it in there to signify you don't have to be root to run that command When people give you a command to run that starts with "#" they mean you need to be root to run it, with a starting "$" you don't have to be root. It corresponds to what the prompt looks like; that's all.

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hehehe... he tries to do that stuff as normal user and not as root. so ... it is quite logical that it doesn`t work. :lol:

okay, before you do that stuff, log in as root in the console, typing "su", then at prompt enter the password. then it should work. :)

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hehehe... he tries to do that stuff as normal user and not as root. so ... it is quite logical that it doesn`t work. :lol:

okay, before you do that stuff, log in as root in the console, typing "su", then at prompt enter the password. then it should work. :)

not true.

A user can ./configure and make all day long in the users $HOME, and can install to $HOME. Just can'r install globally ;)

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