development packages

[Adrian Petrescu]

The metapackage 'build-essential' pulls in just about everything you'll 
need to compile. Just:

sudo apt-get install build-essential

Enjoy :)
Albert wrote:

> Running Breezy on an i686.
>
> It never occurred to me that ubuntu would not have a development 
> environment installed.  I am sort of at a loss as I have never 
> encountered this situation before.  Initially, an attempt to compile a 
> program yielded this:
>
> $ /mnt/hda6.lfs61/sources/binutils-build
> $ ../binutils-2.15.94.0.2.2/configure --prefix=/tools --disable-nls
> loading cache ./config.cache
> checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether ln works... yes
> checking whether ln -s works... yes
> checking for gcc... no
> checking for cc... no
> configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH
>
> I then used Synaptic to install gcc-4.0 (4.0.1-4ubuntu9) and linked 
> gcc to gcc-4.0 in /usr/bin.  Now I get:
> $ /mnt/hda6.lfs61/sources/binutils-build
> $ ../binutils-2.15.94.0.2.2/configure --prefix=/tools --disable-nls
> loading cache ./config.cache
> checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
> checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
> checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
> checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether ln works... yes
> checking whether ln -s works... yes
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... no
> configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler 
> cannot create executables.
>
> Can anyone help?
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