On Compilers and Spline Package Installation

[Nose Nada]

Thanks David!
I'm using Fedora 7 and I think that the compilers are installed. For
example:

address@hidden /]# rpm -q gcc
gcc-4.1.2-12

Is this enough? Or am I missing something?

Omar



dbateman wrote:
> 
> Nose Nada wrote:
>> Hello there!
>> 
>> I have just recently installed Octave under Fedora 7. Everything OK.
>> However, when I tried to installed the spline-gcvspl package from
>> Octave-forge I have problems:
>> 
>> octave:6> pkg install spline-gcvspl-1.0.1.tar.gz
>> configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
>> See `config.log' for more details.
>> error: the configure script returned the following error: checking for
>> gcc... gcc
>> checking for C compiler default output file name... 
>> error: called from `pkg:configure_make' in file
>> /usr/share/octave/2.9.13/m/pkg/pkg.m near line 989, column 2
> 
> Looks like you are missing the compilers.. What OS/platform are you
> running on? Did you install the compilers?
> 
>> 
>> I tried a different package:
>> octave:5> pkg install informationtheory-0.1.1.tar.gz
>> and it work perfectly.
>> Can anyone give a hint on how to deal with this? My experience in Linux
>> is
>> very poor, I'm just a beginner.
>> Thanks in advance, folks!
> 
> The informationtheory packages is just a collection of m-files and so
> doesn't need a compiler. Therefore it installs fine.
> 
> 
>> Omar
> 
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