Re: Installing RCS [-] Help[!]

[Aaron S. Hawley]

Sounds like you're gcc installation is incorrect or the environment for
non-superusers is broke.

you *can* compile install RCS as root.
/a

On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Jeremi Bergman wrote:

> When I run this as root, it works fine, when I run as a user i get
>
> gcc: installation problem, cannot exec 'cc1': No such file or directory
>
> Is there anyway to run the rcs install as root?
>
>
> Aaron S. Hawley wrote:
>
>  Compiling RCS requires a C compiler, preferably gcc I'd imagine.
>
> The error message isn't very infomative, but it appears you don't have gcc
> or your installed gcc is not working.
>
> Try running the following:
>
>   echo 'main() { return 0; }' >a.c
>   gcc  -Dhas_conf_h  -I. -I. -g -O  -o a.out a.c '
>
> /a
>
> On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Jeremi Bergman wrote:
>
>
>
>  Hi, I'm trying to install RCS, but am getting this errors:
>
> /bin/sh -x ./conf.sh 3>&1 >a.h 2>conf.err
> ./conf.sh: testing permissions ... OK
> ./conf.sh: testing compiler for plausibility ...
> ./conf.sh: The command 'gcc  -Dhas_conf_h  -I. -I. -g -O  -o a.out a.c '
> failed on a trivial program.
> make[1]: *** [conf.h] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mividdes/rcs-5.7/src'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
>
> I cannot find help online anywhere... Thanks!