From: etmelag@dcrosby27.ericsson.se (Louis Lagendijk) Subject: Re: Trouble compiling gzip-1.0.3 Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 22:45:02 GMT
In article <1m7tbhINN13t@uwm.edu> rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar) writes:
>I've been having trouble compiling gzip-1.0.3 under Linux...
>I've got the latest HJ Lu distribution (root/base/gcc/lib-disks).
>
>I run the configure script, and everything seems to go all right, until it
>tries to execute the config.status script which it has created. That gives
>the first error I see:
>
>discus:: command not found (My `hostname` is discus.)
>
>But it creates a Makefile anyway... So I "make", and after compiling all
>of the stuff it comes back to me at the end with a linker error saying
>
>ld: No such file or directory for libg
>
>What gives?
>
Edit the config file so that it does not check whether the assembler
files can be compiled, the check failes. In that case a makefile is
generated that uses the c versions.
I have not looked at the problem of trying to execute the hostname.
Forget it.
I ended up with a working version of gzip (1.02 actually, haven't
had the time to get 1.03 yet)
Cheers, Louis