%% Regarding FVWM: Help, newbie drowning !;
%% Paul Hurley <hurleyp_at_aston.ac.uk> writes:
ph> I am trying to install fvwm-2.2.1 on my Redhat 5.1 linux box, I've
ph> downloaded the tar.gz file, unzipped it and everything, waded
ph> through he INSTALL and INSTALL.fvwm,
ph> I have run ./configure, and it goes, and goes, and then comes up
ph> with Error: Can't run test program while cross compiling or
ph> something similar.
This means your compiler is installed incorrectly somehow. I've seen it
many times.
Thanks for providing those bits of the configure output, but the output
you want is further up, nearer the start, where fvwm looks for the C and
C++ compilers (the latter is much further down than the former).
Go back up and look, and you'll see it says "looking for C
compiler... ok" then it'll say "Checking if it's a cross
compiler... yes". That "yes" is wrong, it should be a "no".
What this means is that configure found the compiler and it seems to run
OK, _BUT_ when it tried to link and execute a small program, the program
didn't run. Thus, configure assumes it's cross-compiling.
Go into the config.log file and find the part where it's testing the C
compiler or C++ compiler (whichever one it says is a cross-compiler) and
find out what error it got when trying to run the program. If you don't
understand the error, post it here so we can see it.
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Received on Fri May 21 1999 - 16:08:12 BST