From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7554 invoked from network); 4 Apr 1997 08:52:35 -0000 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by coral.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 4 Apr 1997 08:52:35 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA13108; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 03:38:04 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 03:37:29 -0500 (EST) X-Sender: sweth@208.207.65.50 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 03:51:26 -0500 To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu From: Sweth Chandramouli Subject: problems installing zsh on x86 Resent-Message-ID: <"qJ1-h.0.IC3.8tBHp"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/778 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu i'm trying to install zsh (3.0.2) on a pc running solaris x86; i'm assuming that the solaris 2.x listing in the MACHINES file covers this host, meaning someone else has successfully done this... was that my first mistake? regardless, when i run ./configure, i get the following results: >loading cache ./config.cache >configuring for zsh 3.0.2 >checking host system type... i386-pc-solaris2.5.1 >checking for gcc... no >checking for cc... cc >checking whether the C compiler (cc ) works... no >configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot >create executables. after looking through configure (my perl knowledge is minimal at best, so i could be very off here) i have concluded that a) it cannot find gcc, and b) its attempt to test cc (the next compiler it found) fails, so it exits. gcc _is_ on the machine, however, so i'm not sure why it isn't being found. also, when it then finds cc, why does the test fail? (i realize this is all pretty basic stuff, but i've gone through all of the FAQs, web pages, etc., and couldn't see anything specifically about this; i'm guessing that if i had more unix/c experience i'd be able to figure it out, but until very recently, i was just an end-user at work who became really used to having zsh on the main server; now my old sysadmin is gone, before he could install it on the other servers that we have set up.) TIA, sweth.