FC3 & irssi install probs

[Rick Stevens]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 12:19 -0700, Mike Hoy wrote:
> 
>>>What instructions don't say, because it is assumed, is that if you 
>>>want to compile anything, you need to have compiler install.  Install 
>>>gcc package(s) *and* development libraries (if you don't have compiler 
>>>installed, chances are you don't have devel packages installed either).
>>
>>i did #yum install gcc
>>
>>and it completed.
>>
>>it had dep's:
>>Performing the following to resolve dependencies:
>>  Install: glibc-devel.i386 0:2.3.4-2.fc3
>>  Install: glibc-headers.i386 0:2.3.4-2.fc3
>>
>>and i allowed them to be installed.
>>
>>#./configure in the irrssi** directory still doesn't work.
>>here's the output from ./configure:
>>
>>
>>[root at localhost irssi-0.8.9]# ./configure
>>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... missing
>>checking for working autoconf... missing
>>checking for working automake-1.4... missing
>>checking for working autoheader... missing
>>checking for working makeinfo... missing
>>checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
>>checking for gcc... gcc
>>checking for C compiler default output... a.out
>>checking whether the C compiler works... yes
>>checking whether we are cross compiling... no
>>checking for suffix of executables...
>>checking for suffix of object files... o
>>checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
>>checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
>>checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
>>checking for strerror in -lcposix... no
>>checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
>>checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
>>checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
>>checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... (cached) none needed
>>checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
>>checking for egrep... grep -E
>>checking for ANSI C header files... yes
>>checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
>>checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
>>checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
>>checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld
>>checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
>>checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
>>checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
>>checking whether ln -s works... yes
>>checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all
>>checking for sys/types.h... yes
>>checking for sys/stat.h... yes
>>checking for stdlib.h... yes
>>checking for string.h... yes
>>checking for memory.h... yes
>>checking for strings.h... yes
>>checking for inttypes.h... yes
>>checking for stdint.h... yes
>>checking for unistd.h... yes
>>checking dlfcn.h usability... yes
>>checking dlfcn.h presence... yes
>>checking for dlfcn.h... yes
>>checking for g++... no
>>checking for c++... no
>>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 whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... no
>>checking whether g++ accepts -g... no
>>checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp
>>configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
>>See `config.log' for more details.
>>
>>what am i missing?
> 
> 
> You're trying to build a C++ program it seems.
> 
> # yum install gcc-c++
> 
> You should also check the build instructions for the package you're
> trying to build as it may mention further dependencies.

You also need to install autoconf, automake and texinfo.
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