I am still a complet noob when it comes to linux I'm afraid. I am attempting fedora now, but php configure is returning some errors for the C compiler. I'm not capable of determining what the problem is.

checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O2 -march=i686 -funroll-loops -D_REENTRANT -fPIC ) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables.


A google search seems to return many sites in other languages, or problems relating to other software, but nothing that has helped me so far.

Anyone have a suggestion?

Thanks,

T7702

Install a compiler
If it can't even find the compiler, of course it's going to bail.

Also (possibly) make sure you have the right permissions to write to the dir you are in, probably a good idea to do the compile as root.

It should be installed...

[root@fedora downloads]# which gcc
/usr/bin/gcc


Right?

AS I stated I am still very much learning, so I appologize if I sound like a complete noob. :(

T7702


edit: as you can see, I am root as well. In responce to previous post.

obviously it's instaled, but do you have permission to use it.
Grab a linux book and start reading.

ls -All /usr/bin/gcc

What is the permissions ?

[root@fedora downloads]# ls -All /usr/bin/gcc
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80676 Oct 23 2003 /usr/bin/gcc

uninstalled and reinstalled gcc-objc and seems to be working now. Dont know what caused it...

Thanks to those that attempted to help.

T7702

I had this problem, i had to install gcc++ on debian.