Looks like when you installed SuSE, you didn't install any of the
"development" programs/libraries.  For example, the configure script
couldn't find gcc.  Grab your installation media and install the
development software, and you should be good to go.
~M


On 19 May 2002, Matt wrote:

> I just recently figured out how to compile things after looking at a
> good README. Anyway, I have SuSE 8.0, and I was very excited to finally
> be able to install the Liquid rendering engine, or so I thought. When I
> tried to do it, I got this response:
>
> matt@linux:~> cd '/home/matt/Desktop/mosfet-liquid0.9.5'
> matt@linux:~/Desktop/mosfet-liquid0.9.5> ./configure
> checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
> checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
> checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
> checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking for -p flag to install... yes
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... no
> 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
> checking for cc... no
> checking for cl... no
> configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH
> matt@linux:~/Desktop/mosfet-liquid0.9.5>
>
> So I tried to install automake and autoconf. I think I got autoconfig to
> install, but when I tried installingm automake, it came with the same
> errors that Liquid had. I tried a few more applications, but all had the
> same error. What should I do?
>
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