[abtimoteo]

hi, everybody!

i have been trying to install perl on slackware v10.

after doing the following:

root@zipslack:~# gzip -d perl-5.8.1.tar.gz [ENTER]

root@zipslack:~# cp -i perl-5.8.1.tar /usr/src [ENTER]

root@zipslack:~# cd /usr/src [ENTER]

root@zipslack:/usr/src# tar xvf perl-5.8.1.tar [ENTER]

root@zipslack:/usr/src# cd perl-5.8.1 [ENTER]

root@zipslack:/usr/src/perl-5.8.1# rm -f config.sh Policy.sh [ENTER]

root@zipslack:/usr/src/perl-5.8.1# sh Configure [ENTER]

... I get the following error:

"... the C compiler 'cc' doesn't seem to be working. You need to find a working C compiler."

i already checked my installation of gcc. looks fine after i ran "gcc -v".

i can install using an slackware package but i want to install/compile from a compressed archive.

thanks in advance!

[Chas]

You need to tell it to use gcc rather than cc. Something like this *might* work:

Code:

./Configure -Dcc=gcc

If not, Google for your error and see if you can find the correct options.

~Charlie

[abtimoteo]

thanks. i recieved and tried similar suggestions. still did not compile.

anyway, i suspected that the problem is with dependencies. i am using ziplslack and i may not have installed the additional files needed to compile from sources. to remedy this, i re-installed make. in addition, i installed binutils and kernel-headers. the source did compile thereafter.