Hitha, You'll need to install a gcc package as you don't have a compiler to comile anything with much less gcc! Please post some information on your distribution. corey On 9/21/05, Hitha Nambiar <hithar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > i am trying to configure and install Apache When I download the file and e > xtract it from the tar file . However, when I try to configure it I > get an error > ressponse that says > > ERROR: could not find a C compiler > > I then searched the internet and found gcc, but when i tried to > configure it is said > configuring for a i86-pc-linux-gnuoldld host > created makefile in home/cvsroot/gcc-3.0.4 using mt-frag > ./configure :cc: comand not found > *** The command 'cc -o conftest -g conftest.c' failed. > *** You must set the environment variable CC to a working compiler. > > I am about as new as you can be in linux > please tell me how ill set the environment variable cc to a working compiler > Hitha >
