Re: Compile help, please

Tony Kirkham wrote:
> I am new to this environment and I am lost.  I am using Ubuntu 7.10 
> and I have the source gateway-1.4.1 downloaded.  I am trying to 
> compile kannel and I get the following errors after I run ./configure:
> ...   checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: 
> error: C compiler cannot create executables
>
> Is this an error caused by not having the Gnome-xml library 
> installed?  If it is, how do I install it?  I've been out to the 
> xmlsoft.org <http://xmlsoft.org> site and have come across several 
> .rpm's.  Which of these am I after and how do I install it / where do 
> I put it?
>
> Also, because I am attempting to mod an SMSC driver (I have not 
> changed any code yet), I first attempted to simply run make and I got 
> the following error:
> make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
>
>
> In all of the documentation I have looked at I cannot see that I need 
> to provide any args to "make" to compile this.  What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thank you very much for any help you can provide.
>
>
> -Tony 
Hi Tony,

You need to install the package "build-essential" on Ubuntu 7.10 in case 
you want to compile any package from source.

just hit "apt-get install build-essential" and repeat the process.

Regards.

Stephen