Where is the C Compiler?

[Alfred Vahau]

Matt Galvin wrote:

>On Apr 1, 2005 7:56 PM, Alfred Vahau <alfredv at upng.ac.pg> wrote:
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>>baza wrote:
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>>>Daniel Taylor wrote:
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>>>>Hey,
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>>>>This is a slightly off topic question,
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>>>>How was gcc complied before gcc was compiled in order for it to be
>>>>able to compile gcc? if you understand my chicken vs egg logic.
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>>>>Thanks!
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>>>>- Daniel
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>>>If I have it right Richard Stallman coded it so there would be a
>>>'free' compiler. It was thought to be an important milestone for the
>>>GNU project to have a C compiler.
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>>>Baza
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>>As a newbie to Debian and in this case Ubuntu, I'd like to thank the
>>people for initiating me into Debian and its powerful apt-get command.
>>This pointer is sufficient for me to continue on with my project.
>>It will be seen from my initial posting that I mention the 'which' and
>>the 'find' commands - the two commands that Unix users issue to locate
>>the path of a command. In my case, I wanted to know where cc or gcc were
>>located.
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>>Neither of these were on the standard path as which cc or which gcc
>>returned zero results.
>>But which perl for instance returned /usr/bin/perl so I know that perl
>>is o.k as I will need Perl.
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>>This was strange to me as both cc and gcc are essential commands for
>>working in a Unix/Linux environment.
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>Ubuntu is, i belive, aimed more at being a user/intermediate user
>desktop which partially means... make things easy enough that nobody
>has to compile stuff manually. It's not a big deal for those of us who
>are developers, but for the average user, it can be daunting.
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>Ubuntu (and Debian) has tons of packages already compiled for us and
>readily availible for installation so... the compilers are not so
>essential since most of the time we don't need to compile anything ;)
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>Although if you do need to compile something then compilers, dev
>packages, and libs are all availible for installtion via apt/synaptic.
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>>I downloaded the gcc package from a GNU mirror site and proceeded to
>>install following the familiar steps.
>>gunzip, tar, configure, make and make install
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>>The installation failed because the Makefile was looking for the path to
>>the cc command to compile gcc.
>>I also made similar attempts to install apache from source which also
>>failed since the path to a cc compiler could not be found.
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>>Puzzled, I decided to post reasoning that maybe in Debian things are
>>done differently. I now know that apt-get is the one command that I must
>>get used to.
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>Learning how apt works for real and using it on the cli is great, but
>for the uninitiated using: System -> Administration-> Synaptic Package
>Manager, can be quite helpful and easy to use. Synaptic is the GUI
>frontend to apt that allows you to very easily find and install just
>about anything you may need.
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>Hope this helps,
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This quick overview of what Ubuntu has to offer is very much appreciated.
I was successful at issuing the apt-get command and the gcc and cc were 
installed. It was a breeze.

Thanks,

>Matt
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Alfred,

>>Alfred,
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