From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: install problem Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 18:53:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3675aaad-2481-496a-9c8d-31af0f2929e4@googlegroups.com> References: <1397067430.89539.YahooMailNeo@web122506.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1397094927 10359 80.91.229.3 (10 Apr 2014 01:55:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 01:55:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 10 03:55:18 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WY4D0-00073C-0z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 03:55:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48610 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WY4Cz-0003y9-Ic for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 21:55:17 -0400 X-Received: by 10.68.133.75 with SMTP id pa11mr6741210pbb.2.1397094829015; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 18:53:49 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.110.37 with SMTP id hx5mr245604igb.13.1397094828821; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 18:53:48 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!ur14no5435503igb.0!news-out.google.com!gi6ni272igc.0!nntp.google.com!ur14no5435499igb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.28.82; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.28.82 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 01:53:48 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:204812 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97081 Archived-At: On Thursday, April 10, 2014 4:09:22 AM UTC+5:30, Bob Proulx wrote: > Badaruddin Chachar wrote: > > checking whether the C compiler works... no > > configure: error: in `/home/bchachar/Downloads/Compressed/emacs-24.3': > > configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables > > See `config.log' for more details > Have you ever compiled any other C program from source on your system? > The above looks to me like you don't have a C compiler installed. Its useful (and fun) to build yourself. But often not necessary. Why are you not using the emacs package from your distribution (mint)? [Note that's a genuine not rhetorical question]