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Article #42330Re: Need help installing gcc on Linux
From: J.H.M.Dassen
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 00:00
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 00:00
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In article <4adcq8$ha@one.mind.net>, Russel A Hill <rahill@mind.net> wrote: >I just downloaded gcc-2.7.2.bin.tar.gz from sunsite.edu and followed the >instructions in release.gcc-2.7.2 for installation. When I try to invoke gcc, >I get a message indicating that /usr/bin/gcc cannot does not exist. I >checked. It does... and the permissions and ownership are identical to other >programs that do run. > >I know I've probably missed something simple, ... but what is it. Most likely it's the following: your gcc binary is an ELF binary and you don't have the ELF shared libraries (available from sunsite too) installed. Take a look at the Linux & ELF web page and the ELF howto via http://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/users/barlow/linux-gcc.html Hope this helps, Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if he had to choose between betraying his country and betraying a friend he hoped he would have the decency to betray his country. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11318c,3d659b2bdec87e85 X-Google-Attributes: gid11318c,public From: jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl (J.H.M.Dassen) Subject: Re: Need help installing gcc on Linux Date: 1995/12/12 Message-ID: <4ak81j$58@nic.wi.leidenuniv.nl> X-Deja-AN: 121854802 references: <4adcq8$ha@one.mind.net> organization: Dept. of Mathematics & Computer Science, Leiden University, NL newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help