From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pascal Bourguignon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: cannot install emacs on a laptop Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 18:44:10 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87iri3ggph.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162147245 24753 80.91.229.2 (29 Oct 2006 18:40:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 18:40:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 29 19:40:42 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GeFaA-0005ko-J7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:40:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GeFaA-00038Y-4M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 13:40:30 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Trace: individual.net PeD5OdreAmYClbn0CGcQSAs8c7eVROQLm7xI/6jU7nGCqLJVbH Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZS306ZsJutBVhBH6yhmF4aJyYC4= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142763 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:38387 Archived-At: "Christian Pirschalawa" writes: > I tried to install emacs on my laptop, but the configure script doesn't run > proberly. It does not find gcc or cc and shows the error "No acceptable cc > found in $PATH". I tried it under SUSE and ubuntu, it's the same. > > I'm a Linux beginner, therefore I have no clue what this error message means. If you try to install emacs from the sources, you need a C compiler, such as gcc, to compile it. You have two choices: - try to install a binary package for emacs. - install the gcc C compiler, and try to compile again emacs from the sources. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ I need a new toy. Tail of black dog keeps good time. Pounce! Good dog! Good dog!