On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 12:26:19AM CDT, Richard <cms01 at tampabay.rr.com> wrote: : : Was trying to compile a email client, called elmo, : I do have xtool installed, and was suppose to be a easy compile, : according to the readme.txt file. : : Here my output via terminal window.... : : FastMAC:~/desktop/elmo-1.3.2 rn$ ls : ABOUT-NLS COPYING Makefile.in TODO config.rpath depcomp interface.pl po : ADVOCACY ChangeLog NEWS aclocal.m4 config.sub doc intl src : AUTHORS INSTALL README config.guess configure exec_table.pl missing themes : BUGS Makefile.am THANKS config.h.in configure.in install-sh mkinstalldirs ylwrap : FastMAC:~/desktop/elmo-1.3.2 rn$ ./configure : checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c : checking whether build environment is sane... yes : sed: 1: conftest.sed: invalid command code ? : checking for gawk... no : checking for mawk... no : checking for nawk... no : checking for awk... awk : checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no : checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c : checking for gcc... gcc : checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables : See `config.log' for more details. : FastMAC:~/desktop/elmo-1.3.2 rn$ : : -------------- : what is the problem, is it telling me, that there is no C complier installed?... : I can see ( c++ and gcc 3.3 ) listed in the /bin folder. : You might want to upgrade to Xcode Tools 2.1, which is compatible with Tiger. BTW, the path to the compilers should be /usr/bin/gcc and /usr/bin/c++, respectively. -- Eugene http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/