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

[Jay]

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.

-Jay

Geoffrey wrote:

> Jay wrote:
>
>> It happens with any source package...but the specific ones I tried 
>> were pork, naim, and centericq packages.  The pork and naim packages 
>> are on here: ftp://metafero.elon.edu/ labeled as such.
>> I had no trouble compiling them on any other Mandrake 10.0 box, though.
>
>
> I'm at a loss on this.  I don't see what's causing the problem. 
> Further, when you say you've got other mdk 10 boxes that compile the 
> code fine, makes me wonder if something is corrupted on the box you 
> can't compile it on.
>
> Is this a production box?  You might try some things like 
> removing/reinstalling gcc.
>