"Ameen, Riaz" <Riaz.Ameen_at_gs.com> writes:
> wimpledog# which gcc
> /export/gnu-1.2/bin/gcc
> wimpledog# which cpp
> /export/gnu-1.2/bin/cpp
>
> I am using SunOS 5.8 or solaris 8.
Hmm. The version of gcc I have installed on Solaris doesn't
put cpp in my path. What version of gcc is this? Type:
gcc --version
(mine prints 2.8.1).
Also type:
file /export/gnu-1.2/bin/cpp
If its a shell, and resonably sized, post it.
> Thanks.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Espen [mailto:dane_at_mk.telcordia.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 3:15 PM
> To: Ameen, Riaz
> Cc: 'fvwm_at_fvwm.org'
> Subject: Re: FVWM: Configure - question.?
>
>
> "Ameen, Riaz" <Riaz.Ameen_at_gs.com> writes:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to run configure and it runs "Checking whether the C compiler
> > (gcc ) works ......" for so long,I interrupted it after 40 minutes,by that
> > time it had forked 1200 cpp -lang-c ... processes.
> >
> > Is it normal ,if normal , How much time it takes to finish running the
> > configure.
>
> Normal time is a few minutes.
>
> Something is wrong with your compiler setup.
>
> What OS are you on?
>
> Where are cpp and gcc? (Type "which gcc", "which cpp".
>
> It sounds like you have a shell of some sort set up to invoke cpp
> and the shell is reinvoking itself.
>
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