It actually doesn't look like GCC is installed completely. GCC is
normally found in /usr/bin/gcc, which should already be in your path.

Scott wrote:
> What distribution are you using?  What you're actually seeing are the 
> libraries that support the compiler, but not the compiler itself, as it 
> would be located, based upon the location of the libraries, in /usr/bin, 
> so you will need to install the compiler itself.
>
> -Scott
>
> Robert N. Eaton wrote:
>   
>> I'm trying to install GNUChess and xboard into my Xandros desktop.  I 
>> downloaded gnuchess-5.05.tar.gz and xboard-4.2.7.tar.gz.  I used tar 
>> -xvvzf on xboard... to untar and gunzip it. So far, so good.
>>
>> The Install README told me to cd to xboard-4.2.7 and to do ./configure. 
>> And I get:
>>
>> bob@Pooh-at-Home:~/xboard-4.2.7$ ./configure
>> checking for gcc... no
>> checking for cc... no
>> checking for cc... no
>> checking for cl... no
>> configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
>> See `config.log' for more details.
>>
>> So far as I can tell there is no "config.log" file. (There is a _very_ 
>> long list of other "config" files.)
>>
>> $PATH gives me:
>> bash: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games: No such file 
>> or directory
>>
>> Locate gcc gives me:
>>
>> /usr/include/linux/compiler-gcc2.h
>> /usr/include/linux/compiler-gcc3.h
>> /usr/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
>> /usr/include/linux/compiler-gcc+.h
>> /usr/lib/gcc-lib
>> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux
>> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.4
>> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.4/cc1
>> /usr/lib/libstlport_gcc.so.4.6
>> .... etc,etc.
>>
>> The above makes me think gcc _is_ installed.  How do I get it included 
>> in the $PATH statement so that ./configure can find it? Or should should 
>> the gcc binaries be in one or more of the /bin directories?
>>
>> Confused (my normal state regarding Linux.)
>>
>> Bob Eaton
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