orca 0.2.4 compiler log error

Hi,
On Debian which is family of Ubuntu, I had to do:
apt-get install libc6-dev g++ gcc make
and not just apt-get install gcc.
Try that as I had a simelar error.
HTH
Willem


On Sat, 20 May 2006, Cody Hurst wrote:

> hi will,
> I also forgot to mention that I had done a touch foo
and then tried to do 
> the ./configure and it still gave me that error.
>
> cody
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Willie
Walker" <William.WalkerSun.COM>
> To: "Orca screen reader developers"
<orca-listgnome.org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 2:57 PM
> Subject: Re: orca 0.2.4 compiler log error
>
>
>> Is it possible /home/churst/Desktop/orca is not
writable by you?  Try
>> cd'ing to /home/churst/Desktop/orca and doing a
"touch foo".  In
>> addition, does config.log give any insight?
>> 
>> Will
>> 
>> On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 18:38 -0400, Cody Hurst
wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>   I just installed Ubuntu 5.10 on my laptop and
I can't seem to get
>>> orca to install. it keeps complaining the
compiler will not compile.
>>> 
>>> here are the commands I typed:
>>> 
>>> cd /home/churst/Desktop/orca
>>> ./configure prefix=/usr
>>> error
>>> :error:C compiler cannot create executable
>>> See config.log for mre details
>>> 
>>> Here are the things that it failed to check
that were No.
>>> 
>>> checking for gawk ... no
>>> Checking whether makesets $(MAKE) ... no
>>> checking whether to enable maintainer -
specific portions of
>>> makefiles ... no
>>> Checking for style of include used by make ...
none
>>> checking for C compiler default output filename
... configure:error:C
>>> compiler can not create executables
>>> 
>>> what is going on here and what do i need to
install to get orca to
>>> compile correctly?
>>> 
>>> cody
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