Re: Orca Re: 0.2.4 compiler log error

["Cody Hurst" <cdog2005 gmail com>]

Hi,
 Thank you for the tip. I have downloaded the new ubuntu 6.06 and it
didn't work with my laptop. It says to have more drivers, but all I
get is a white screen so it doesn't work with my laptop. I have since
considered formatting Fedora core 5, as this works on all my machines.

Cody

On 5/22/06, Michael Wigle <mike wigle cincyblind org> wrote:
> I might be able to help. I ran into that same problem. Unfortunately,
> being new I didn't think anyone else would run into it so I didn't write
> down what fixed it. However, Ubuntu is missing a few different C
> packages by default. You may be missing one of the compiler packages
> needed. Just the single gcc 4.0 package isn't enough I don't think. I
> found there were a few similar but different packages like cpp as well
> that might also be needed. Perhaps someone with more experience can
> figure out which package you're missing. But I also was able to
> configure and make but then it wouldn't make install for me with that
> same error. As a side note, I've found Ubuntu 6 to be more stable and
> versatile and work better with Orca than 5 if that's an option for you.
>
> Michael Wigle (new to all this but learning)
>
> On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 12:00 -0400, orca-list-request gnome org wrote:
>
> > > 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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> > >
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