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SpaceCowboy
SpaceCowboy

Reputation: 563

How to install GCC on X-Linux

I'm at a bit of a loss, the problem is that I need to install GCC on X-Linux. Basically what's happening is I have been told to try and get wine on X-Linux...so I transfer the files over run the configure and I'm told I need GCC, so I download GCC only to find that I don't have a 'make' command...So I download the tar for the make command, turns out make needs a C compiler to run!

I'm stuck in a kind of chicken-and-the-egg loop here....help me!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 315

Answers (1)

Satish
Satish

Reputation: 17467

A GNU Make source tarball contains a build.sh script to resolve this chicken-and-egg situation. From the README:

If you need to build GNU Make and have no other make program to use, you can use the shell script build.sh instead. To do this, first run configure as described in INSTALL. Then, instead of typing make to build the program, type sh build.sh. This should compile the program in the current directory. Then you will have a Make program that you can use for ./make install, or whatever else.

Upvotes: 2

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