[Esd-l] Red Hat 9...

[Brad]

Hi again John. Thanks again for your input.

gcc was not installed and so I attempted to install it, only to be met with 
dependency requirements. When I tried to install those as well, I had more 
denendencies. So I tried to install those and they required even more 
dependencies: kernel-headers -  which is not available for Red Hat 9.

Hmm... what is that term? "Dependency Hell"?

So...

I bit the bullet and just installed gcc by itself. I then ran the RPM building 
utility and it got some way into it before:


<snip>

metamail.c: At top level:
metamail.c:2381: storage size of `MyTtyStateIn' isn't known
metamail.c:2381: storage size of `MyTtyStateOut' isn't known
make[1]: *** [metamail.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/mm2.7/src/metamail'
make: *** [basics] Error 2
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.86289 (%build)


I then tried to compile the .gz version and got:


<snip>

metamail.c: At top level:
metamail.c:2381: storage size of `MyTtyStateIn' isn't known
metamail.c:2381: storage size of `MyTtyStateOut' isn't known
make[1]: *** [metamail.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/metamail/SOURCES/mm2.7/src/metamail'
make: *** [basics] Error 2

At least I still have the same error.   :-)

BTW, I am VK4NT. :-)

Regards,
Brad




On Sunday 20 July 2003 12:51, you wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Brad wrote:
> > I'm not sure what "cc" is but I suspect that it may have something
> > to do with C++: I am not a develper.
>
> "cc" is the *old* C compiler.
>
> Are you sure you have the development kit (gcc) installed? It should
> set things up so that the cc command will work. Then you should be
> able to rebuild the SRPM.