Configuring GNUPG 1.06 in RedHat 7.1

[Lee Evans]

Looks to me like either 1) your PATH env var is messed up 2) you are missing
development packages.

First thing to do, see if you actually have the things - you can check for
the rpm's with 'rpm -qa|grep gcc' to see if you have gcc (GNU cc). If you do
(which I doubt), then your PATH is messed. If you don't, you need to install
some of the development tools. I think this is the most likely problem, as
it's highly likely the default workstation install doesn't include any
development tools. You could also try something like 'locate make' to see if
you have any of the make tools - again, you probably don't, but if you do
that command will tell you where the binaries (executables) are.

If you do have the packages, then there is something wrong with your PATH.
This is basically a list of directories, stored as an environment variable.
Whenever you try to run something, it will check in these directories for
the binary. To check your PATH, do 'echo $PATH'. To add directorires to it,
you can either run 'export PATH=$PATH:/new/directory' (which will only be
temporary), or find the file in which your PATH is specified. This is read
in when you log in, so the changes will affect all your future sessions.
It's probably something like /etc/profile, ~/.bashrc or something like
that - if you can't find it, you can probably get away with tacking the
previous command onto the end of your ~/.bashrc.

Regards
Lee Evans

----- Original Message -----
From: <marty55@hushmail.com>
To: <gnupg-users@gnupg.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 8:08 AM
Subject: Configuring GNUPG 1.06 in RedHat 7.1


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> Hi,
>
> I have looked at the archives to see if I could find a similar
> problem with 1.06 since it was released, but to no avail.
>
> After downloading and unzipping 1.06, I get an error message
> when running ./configure.  It is as follows:
>
> # ./configure
> creating cache ./config.cache
> checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
> checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
> checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
> checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
> checking for working aclocal... missing
> checking for working autoconf... missing
> checking for working automake... missing
> checking for working autoheader... missing
> checking for working makeinfo... missing
> checking for mawk... no
> checking for gawk... gawk
> checking which static random module to use... default
> checking whether use of /dev/random is requested... yes
> checking whether use of extensions is requested... yes
> checking whether assembler modules are requested... yes
> checking whether memory guard is requested... no
> checking whether included zlib is requested... no
> checking whether use of capabilities is requested... no
> checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking for working aclocal... missing
> checking for working autoconf... missing
> checking for working automake... missing
> checking for working autoheader... missing
> checking for working makeinfo... missing
> checking for gcc... no
> checking for cc... no
> configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH
>
> I see several potential problems, but since I am fairly new to
> Linux, I do not know how to go about solving them.
>
> The first problems is the missing files that it is checking for:
>
> checking for working aclocal... missing
> checking for working autoconf... missing
> checking for working automake... missing
> checking for working autoheader... missing
> checking for working makeinfo... missing
>
> The program checks for these files twice then does this:
>
> checking for gcc... no
> checking for cc... no
> configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH
>
> What is an acceptable cc? And where do I get it.  I am using
> what I thought was a default RedHat7.1 workstation installation.
>
> Any help that the GnuPG guru's may be able to provide is very
> much appreciated.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Marty.
>
> marty55@hushmail.com
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