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

[Geoffrey]

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?

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Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
Building secure systems in spite of Microsoft