gnash

[Kenneth]

gcc handles C++ as well as C and a few others.  Was there anything before the
line that said it didn't find a C++ compiler?  Did it say what command it
tried to use?

Someone else will probably know what executable is usually used to compile
C++. I can't remember offhand since I don't use it.


--- "Robert N. Eaton" <moth28 at cox.net> wrote:

> Because I can't get my installed flash player to play nicely with 
> Firefox, I thought I would try gnash-0.7.1.  After I untarred and 
> unzipped it, I invoked ./configure, and got
> 
> <snip>
> 
> checking for C++ compiler default output file name... configure: error: 
> C++ compiler cannot create executables
> See `config.log' for more details.
> 
> I opened `config.log' and found, among other things...
> 
> PATH: /usr/local/bin
> PATH: /usr/bin
> PATH: /bin
> PATH: /usr/bin/X11
> PATH: /usr/games
> 
> 
> and...
> 
> configure:2689: checking for c++
> configure:2718: result: no
> 
> I did a locate search for  c++ and found...
> 
> /usr/bin/c++filt
> /usr/include/c++
> /usr/include/c++/3.3
> .......
> 
> Since there were a lot of entries in /usr/include/c++, I concluded that 
> it was indeed installed (correct me if I'm wrong.)  If it is installed 
> there, how do I install /usr/include in the PATH statement? Or should I 
> mv or cp the c++ directory to, say, /usr/local/bin? Or should I merely 
> ln -s the two directories???
> 
> Help.
> 
> Bob Eaton
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