[ale] Mandrake 10.0 configure and make errors - whaaa?

[Jay]

I've tried doing it as jay and as root, in /home/jay/ and in /usr/src/  
and none of them wants to let me create the Makefile...I think you might 
be on the right track, but I would think that root would have the 
permission no matter what.



Geoffrey wrote:

> Jay wrote:
>
>> I tried removing and reinstalling gcc already, but it is a production 
>> box, yes.  It's an on-campus ftp server.  The difference between this 
>> one and the other mdk 10 machines is purely the security 
>> lockdown...they're even on the same hardware, because they're too 
>> cheap to give me anything better than an old desktop to run the ftp 
>> server on.  I can't reinstall the OS on it, or anything along those 
>> lines, especially since I'm doing all of this remotely, but I can 
>> remove and re-add packages.
>> I dont think it's a gcc thing, because it compiles code ok, I just 
>> cant ./configure properly to create a make file, and it then proceeds 
>> to fail on make.
>> This is the kind of thing where I just sit here and scratch my head, 
>> cause I dont know what in the heck I did differently that caused this.
>
>
> Long shot here.  What id are you compiling it as?  Do you have 
> permissions to create the Makefile where it's trying to create it?
>