[Dapper] missing gcc??

[Constantine Evans]

Thomas Kaiser wrote:
> Mark Johanson wrote:
>> Was doing a configure on a application and got this odd error:
>>
>> checking for gcc... no
>> checking for cc... no
>> checking for cc... no
>> checking for cl... no
>>
>>
>> Obviously the application errored out right there stating it
>> couldn't find and acceptable C compiler. My question is how can
>> you have a installation without a version of gcc? Went into
>> Symantic and install gcc4 and tried again. Still got the gcc
>> missing. Any ideas?
>>
> 
> sudo apt-get install build-essential
> 
> Should give you everything for building applications from source.
> 
> Regards, Thomas
> 
> 

build-essential doesn't include very much though (it doesn't even 
provide autoconf)- certainly not everything for building applications 
from source. It would be nice if there was a larger metapackage that 
included more development-related packages, like autoconf and cvs, and 
possibly another that included the -dev packages related to 
ubuntu-desktop, so that developers wouldn't have to install so many -dev 
packages on new installations.

Constantine