On Wed, 14 May 2008 13:43:31 -0400, Mark Misulich wrote:
a few weeks ago I was advised to add gcc-cpp to my installed programs if I wished to compile programs on linux.
If you want to compile programs, the package you need depends on the programming language: C : gcc C++ : gcc-c++ Fortran : gcc-fortran Objective C : gcc-objc Objective C++ : gcc-obj-c++ Ada : gcc-ada If you install one of these packages with yast2, zypper, smart etc. these will pull in all other needed packages (eg. gcc42-c++ and libstdc++ for gcc-c++). If you use rpm directly, you'll have to manually install all needed packages. As the GNU compiler collection only produces assembler code, you also need the binutils package that contains (among other) the assembler as and the linker ld. Typically you also need a host of other tools and librabies so the easiest way is to select one of the 'software development' schemes in YaST2. Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org