[Dovecot] dovecot-1.1.3 failure to install

[Seth Mattinen]

tonj wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Seth Mattinen" <sethm at rollernet.us>
> To: <dovecot at dovecot.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 11:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] dovecot-1.1.3 failure to install
> 
> 
>> tonj wrote:
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ralf Hildebrandt"
>>> <Ralf.Hildebrandt at charite.de>
>>> To: <dovecot at dovecot.org>
>>> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 11:33 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] dovecot-1.1.3 failure to install
>>>
>>>
>>>> * tonj <tonj at freeuk.com>:
>>>>
>>>>> checking for gcc... no
>>>>> checking for cc... no
>>>>> checking for cl.exe... no
>>>>> configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
>>>>
>>>> No compiler, no compilation. Easy?
>>>
>>> not for a newbie no.
>>> what's a complier?
>>
>> It compiles source code into a binary executable.
> 
> so where does a newbie get this complier?


GCC is pretty popular. Or go grab binary packages from whatever distro
you're using.

~Seth