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Garry Pettet
Garry Pettet

Reputation: 8290

Why does configure say no C compiler found when GCC is installed?

I am trying to make Sphinx from source on a 32-bit CentOS 6 VPS.

When I run this command:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/sphinx

I get this error output:

checking build environment
--------------------------

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no

checking for compiler programs
------------------------------

checking whether to compile debug version... no
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl.exe... no
configure: error: in `/home/gnotes/sphinx':
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.

What I don't understand is that GCC is installed so why can't configure find an acceptable C compiler?

Here's the output of yum:

sudo yum install gcc

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: mirror.metrocast.net
 * extras: centos.mirror.constant.com
 * updates: mirror.lug.udel.edu
base                                                                                                                                                                      | 3.7 kB     00:00     
extras                                                                                                                                                                    | 3.5 kB     00:00     
updates                                                                                                                                                                   | 3.4 kB     00:00     
Setting up Install Process
Package gcc-4.4.7-3.el6.i686 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do

What gives?

Upvotes: 29

Views: 122150

Answers (8)

Lakshmikandan
Lakshmikandan

Reputation: 4617

The below packages are also helps you,

yum install gcc glibc glibc-common gd gd-devel -y

Upvotes: 0

kds
kds

Reputation: 28665

try yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

if the installation is success then you will have a full set of development tools. Such as gcc, g++, make, ld ect. After that you can try the compilation of Code Blocks again.

Since yum is deprecated you can use dnf instead:

dnf groupinstall "Development Tools"

Upvotes: 40

costerwellkhyriem
costerwellkhyriem

Reputation: 11

I had the same issue with mind. I tried using sudo apt-get install build-essential It still won't work. I simply created a hardlink to the gcc-x binary in the /usr/bin/ folder. sudo ls /usr/bin/gcc-x /usr/bin/gcc

That worked for me!

Upvotes: 1

Lakshmikandan
Lakshmikandan

Reputation: 4617

Install GCC in Ubuntu Debian Base 

sudo apt-get install build-essential

Upvotes: 19

Vinoth Sankar
Vinoth Sankar

Reputation: 11

Sometime gcc had created as /usr/bin/gcc32. so please create a ln -s /usr/bin/gcc32 /usr/bin/gcc and then compile that ./configure.

Upvotes: 1

Charlesliam
Charlesliam

Reputation: 1313

i have same problem at the moment. I just run yum install gcc

Upvotes: 7

devnull
devnull

Reputation: 123488

Try specifying CC while configuring:

CC=/usr/bin/gcc ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/sphinx

Also check if your compiler produces executables. The following should produce an a.out:

echo "int main(){0;}" | gcc -x c -

Upvotes: 6

mti2935
mti2935

Reputation: 12027

Maybe gcc is not in your path? Try finding gcc using which gcc and add it to your path if it's not already there.

Upvotes: 4

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