error installing perl - c compiler not working

hi, everybody!

i have been trying to install perl on slackware v10.

after doing the following:

root@zipslack:~# gzip -d perl-5.8.1.tar.gz [ENTER]

root@zipslack:~# cp -i perl-5.8.1.tar /usr/src [ENTER]

root@zipslack:~# cd /usr/src [ENTER]

root@zipslack:/usr/src# tar xvf perl-5.8.1.tar [ENTER]

root@zipslack:/usr/src# cd perl-5.8.1 [ENTER]

root@zipslack:/usr/src/perl-5.8.1# rm -f config.sh Policy.sh [ENTER]

root@zipslack:/usr/src/perl-5.8.1# sh Configure [ENTER]

... I get the following error:

"... the C compiler 'cc' doesn't seem to be working. You need to find a working C compiler."

i already checked my installation of gcc. looks fine after i ran "gcc -v".

i can install using an slackware package but i want to install/compile from a compressed archive. :)

thanks in advance!

Find the path to gcc, usually /usr/bin/gcc. Do this with 'which gcc'. Then set the variable to the path to gcc, like this 'CC=path'. Then try again.

hi, valan. thanks for the suggestion. tried it but no luck.

anyway, i suspected that the problem is with dependencies. to remedy this, i re-installed make. in addition, i installed binutils and kernel-headers. the source did compile thereafter.

Did you install the full Glibc package or just the so-libs. You'll need the full version. It's in the slackware/l dir on your installation CD/dir

Install the gcc package from the cd.

it is ok now. perl is installed.

glibc files (i.e., glibc, glib and glib2) are installed. i got them from the slackware website and installed them on the zipslack installation, which i transferred from a windows partition to its own (linux) partition.

gcc is installed the same way.