Re: orca 0.2.4 compiler log error

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hey Cody:

The log file is called config.log and it is created in the same
directory where you run ./autogen.sh and/or ./configure.

Will

PS - I hope you're taking good notes!  We could could use good notes for
Debian in the "Installing and Setting Up Orca" section of the Orca wiki:

http://live.gnome.org/Orca

On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 19:22 -0400, Cody Hurst wrote:
> hi will,
>   I hate to sound ni`eve, but where is the log file located? and even wehn I 
> tried to compile gnopernicus, it still gives me the same error, that the 
> compiler can not create executables. I have gcc 4.0 or so it says.
>
> thanks
> Cody
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Willie Walker" <William Walker Sun COM>
> To: "Orca screen reader developers" <orca-list gnome org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 2:57 PM
> Subject: Re: orca 0.2.4 compiler log error
>
>
> > Is it possible /home/churst/Desktop/orca is not writable by you?  Try
> > cd'ing to /home/churst/Desktop/orca and doing a "touch foo".  In
> > addition, does config.log give any insight?
> >
> > Will
> >
> > On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 18:38 -0400, Cody Hurst wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >   I just installed Ubuntu 5.10 on my laptop and I can't seem to get
> > > orca to install. it keeps complaining the compiler will not compile.
> > >
> > > here are the commands I typed:
> > >
> > > cd /home/churst/Desktop/orca
> > > ./configure prefix=/usr
> > > error
> > > :error:C compiler cannot create executable
> > > See config.log for mre details
> > >
> > > Here are the things that it failed to check that were No.
> > >
> > > checking for gawk ... no
> > > Checking whether makesets $(MAKE) ... no
> > > checking whether to enable maintainer - specific portions of
> > > makefiles ... no
> > > Checking for style of include used by make ... none
> > > checking for C compiler default output filename ... configure:error:C
> > > compiler can not create executables
> > >
> > > what is going on here and what do i need to install to get orca to
> > > compile correctly?
> > >
> > > cody
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