Why does configure say no C compiler found when GCC is installed

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I am trying to make Sphinx from source on a 32-bit CentOS 6 VPS   When I run this command     configure --prefix  usr local sphinx   I get this error output   checking build environment --------------------------  checking for a BSD-compatible install     usr bin install -c checking whether build environment is sane    yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p     bin mkdir -p checking for gawk    gawk checking whether make sets   MAKE     yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles    no  checking for compiler programs ------------------------------  checking whether to compile debug version    no checking for gcc    no checking for cc    no checking for cl exe    no configure  error  in   home gnotes sphinx   configure  error  no acceptable C compiler found in  PATH See  config log  for more details    What I don t understand is that GCC is installed so why can t configure find an acceptable C compiler   Here s the output of yum   sudo yum install gcc  Loaded plugins  fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile    base  mirror metrocast net    extras  centos mirror constant com    updates  mirror lug udel edu base                                                                                                                                                                        3 7 kB     00 00      extras                                                                                                                                                                      3 5 kB     00 00      updates                                                                                                                                                                     3 4 kB     00 00      Setting up Install Process Package gcc-4 4 7-3 el6 i686 already installed and latest version Nothing to do   What gives

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Maybe gcc is not in your path   Try finding gcc using which gcc and add it to your path if it s not already there

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i have same problem at the moment  I just run yum install gcc

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try yum groupinstall  Development Tools   if the installation is success then you will have a full set of development tools  Such as gcc  g    make  ld ect  After that you can try the compilation of Code Blocks again   Since yum is deprecated you can use dnf instead   dnf groupinstall  Development Tools

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Install GCC in Ubuntu  Debian Base    sudo apt-get install build-essential

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Sometime gcc had created as  usr bin gcc32  so please create a ln -s  usr bin gcc32  usr bin gcc and then compile that   configure

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I had the same issue with mind  I tried  using sudo apt-get install build-essential It still won t work  I simply created a hardlink to the gcc-x binary in the  usr bin  folder  sudo ls  usr bin gcc-x  usr bin gcc  That worked for me

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Try specifying CC while configuring   CC  usr bin gcc   configure --prefix  usr local sphinx   Also check if your compiler produces executables   The following should produce an a out   echo  int main   0      gcc -x c -

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The below packages are also helps you   yum install gcc glibc glibc-common gd gd-devel -y

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