LXDE Missing Compiler [Solved]

[BHReach]

LXDE has no developer tools. I tried compiling mtpaint from source and gcc was missing. I installed it and then gtk was missing. I installed that and still got errors so quit tying. Installed kolourpaint instead.

I switched from SL weekly KDE to LXDE because KDE is broke. knotify4 consumes 100% of cpu and I could not make it stop. Fortunately ksnapshot, k3b, and kolourpaint, 3 of my favorite KDE programs, don't require knotify and work fine under LXDE.

If you are going to remove the developer tools for LXDE (probably to fit it on a CD, which doesn't make much sense to me since CDs are not cost effective anymore because they only hold 1/6 of the data that a DVD does but cost only slightly less), then you should make reinstalling them trivial like:

equo install DT

[joost]

If you need to compile:

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equo install sys-devel/gcc sys-devel/base-gcc

[BHReach]

If you need to compile:

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equo install sys-devel/gcc sys-devel/base-gcc

Those are already installed so it needs more than just those.

[micia]

Installing them is trivial, since all you need is gcc and base-gcc

could you post the output of:

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gcc-config -l
binutils-config -l


[BHReach]

Installing them is trivial, since all you need is gcc and base-gcc

could you post the output of:

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gcc-config -l
binutils-config -l


gcc-config -l
[1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.6.2 *

binutils-config -l
[1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-2.20.1 *

[micia]

GCC setup is good, can you test a basic C program compilation and see if it works?

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echo 'int main() { int printf(const char*, ...); printf("hello world!\n"); return 0; }' >> test.c
gcc test.c -o test
./test


it should produce this output:

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hello world!


[BHReach]

GCC setup is good, can you test a basic C program compilation and see if it works?

For example:

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echo 'int main() { int printf(const char*, ...); printf("hello world!\n"); return 0; }' >> test.c
gcc test.c -o test
./test


it should produce this output:

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hello world!


It produced the expected output.

[micia]

Then why do you think GCC doesn't work?
Is emerge failing at some point and leads you to believe GCC is faulty?
Could you report any log from your failed compilations?

[BHReach]

Then why do you think GCC doesn't work?
Is emerge failing at some point and leads you to believe GCC is faulty?
Could you report any log from your failed compilations?

I did not think gcc was broke, I thought some developer tools were missing because mtpaint would not compile. I found the following solution but it is unacceptable to me because I don't want to downgrade libpng just for this program. Also, mtpaint is not currently being developed (if it were, they would fix this bug), the last release was more than 2.5 years ago. That is enough reasons for me to avoid this program.

mtPaint 3.31 fails to compile (December 2011)

png.c:(.text+0x1135): undefined reference to `png_set_gray_1_2_4_to_8'

SOLUTION: mtPaint is quite old, and seems to assume libpng 1.2.x, but the current in Gentoo is 1.5.

emerge -av =media-libs/libpng-1.2.46 # or whatever minor version you have

vi _conf.txt # replace "libpng" with "libpng12"

ln -s libpng12.so.0 libpng12.so # I had ot do this in /usr/lib64 and /usr/lib32