Description on The Error Triggered upon Compilation Process
This is an article similar with the previous article titled ‘How to Solve Source Compile Error configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH in Linux CentOS’. The article exist in this link. The main problem is actually the same, it is the problem in the process of compiling source. There is a specific error similar with the other article in this link where it is also the title of this article. As shown in the similar article, the error given for an example actually exists in the process of compiling a PostgreSQL Database Server’s source. The output showing the error message is available below :
root@hostname:/home/user/Downloads/postgresql-10.5# ./configure --prefix=/opt/postgresql-10.5/app checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking which template to use... linux checking whether NLS is wanted... no checking for default port number... 5432 checking for block size... 8kB checking for segment size... 1GB checking for WAL block size... 8kB checking for WAL segment size... 16MB checking for gcc... no checking for cc... no configure: error: in `/home/user/Downloads/postgresql-10.5': configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH See `config.log' for more details root@hostname:/home/user/Downloads/postgresql-10.5#
So, there is no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH as the error message in the above output shows. As a result, the continuation compilation process of PostgreSQL Database Server is not possible. The above error have a proper solution which is similar with the other article in this link. It is by installing a specific package or tool in Linux Ubuntu operating system distribution. Generally, in any Linux operating sytem distribution, the package or tool responsible for the compilation task is ‘gcc’. Before moving forward, the following is the information about the suitable package or tool available in Ubuntu for compiling process by executing the command ‘apt show gcc’ :
root@hostname:~# apt show gcc Package: gcc Version: 4:7.3.0-3ubuntu2.1 Priority: optional Build-Essential: yes Section: devel Source: gcc-defaults (1.176ubuntu2.1) Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]> Original-Maintainer: Debian GCC Maintainers <[email protected]> Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 51,2 kB Provides: c-compiler Depends: cpp (>= 4:7.3.0-3ubuntu2.1), gcc-7 (>= 7.3.0-27~) Recommends: libc6-dev | libc-dev Suggests: gcc-multilib, make, manpages-dev, autoconf, automake, libtool, flex, bison, gdb, gcc-doc Conflicts: gcc-doc (<< 1:2.95.3) Supported: 5y Download-Size: 5.184 B APT-Manual-Installed: no APT-Sources: http://id.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 Packages Description: GNU C compiler This is the GNU C compiler, a fairly portable optimizing compiler for C. . This is a dependency package providing the default GNU C compiler. N: There is 1 additional record. Please use the '-a' switch to see it root@hostname:~#
Steps taken to Solve Error Compilation Problem in Ubuntu 18.04. Looking for the ‘gcc’ tool.
For Ubuntu 18.04 Linux operating system distribution, the steps for installing the requirement package or tools for compiling source files are not totally different with the other Linux operating system distribution. It is shown below :
First step, just search the packages responsible for compiling process. In Ubuntu, there is a tool for managing software, packages or tools. It is the ‘apt’ package tool. In the early years, the specific package, tool representing a command for searching the appropriate package is the ‘apt-cache’ package tool. But nowadays, the ‘apt’ package tool is available for doing the same purpose with the additional argument ‘search’. Below. The following are those commands for searching the compiler package or tool :
The first one is the ‘apt-cache’.
apt-cache search --names-only "^gcc$"
The execution of the command is shown below :
root@hostname:~# apt-cache search "^gcc$" gcc - GNU C compiler root@hostname:~#
The output shows the name of the package and also a short information about the package. The above command has a regular expression pattern specifying on the searching pattern. The pattern is to search an exact package or tool named ‘gcc’. Using the ‘apt’ package or tool can also achieve the above searching task process as follows :
apt search --names-only "^gcc$"
root@hostname:~# apt search --names-only "^gcc$" Sorting... Done Full Text Search... Done gcc/bionic-updates,now 4:7.3.0-3ubuntu2.1 amd64 [installed,automatic] GNU C compiler root@hostname:~#
Furthermore, check if the package or tool is available and it is ready to use. How to check an installed package or tool in the Ubuntu Linux operating system ?. Below is the actual command to check if the package or tool with the name of ‘gcc’ is already exist :
apt list --installed | grep gcc
The output of the command execution is shown below :
root@hostname:~# apt list --installed | grep gcc WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts. root@hostname:~#
Steps taken to Solve Error Compilation Problem in Ubuntu 18.04. An alternative package or tool named ‘build-essential’.
Apparently, based on the above output command execution, the package or tool named ‘gcc’ is not installed yet. But fortunately, in Ubuntu Linux operating system distribution there is another package which is appropriate and it is suitable for the installation process. It is the ‘build-essential’ package. Before installing ‘build-essential’, below is the detail information about the package. The information is available by executing the command ‘apt show build-essential’ as follows :
root@hostname:~# apt show build-essential Package: build-essential Version: 12.4ubuntu1 Priority: optional Build-Essential: yes Section: devel Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]> Original-Maintainer: Matthias Klose <[email protected]> Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 20,5 kB Depends: libc6-dev | libc-dev, gcc (>= 4:7.2), g++ (>= 4:7.2), make, dpkg-dev (>= 1.17.11) Supported: 5y Download-Size: 4.758 B APT-Manual-Installed: yes APT-Sources: http://id.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages Description: Informational list of build-essential packages If you do not plan to build Debian packages, you don't need this package. Starting with dpkg (>= 1.14.18) this package is required for building Debian packages. . This package contains an informational list of packages which are considered essential for building Debian packages. This package also depends on the packages on that list, to make it easy to have the build-essential packages installed. . If you have this package installed, you only need to install whatever a package specifies as its build-time dependencies to build the package. Conversely, if you are determining what your package needs to build-depend on, you can always leave out the packages this package depends on. . This package is NOT the definition of what packages are build-essential; the real definition is in the Debian Policy Manual. This package contains merely an informational list, which is all most people need. However, if this package and the manual disagree, the manual is correct. root@hostname:~#
So, how can installing build-essential can also automatically install ‘gcc’ package or tool ?. Below is the information where it is specifically giving the package dependencies information. It means, the success of installing ‘build-essential’ package or tool depends on these lists of package or tools. These lists of package or tools must be exist before the installation of ‘build-essential’ can start. In other words, there is a checking process for the availability of those lists of packages or tools. If those packages or tools are not available, ‘apt’ will install those packages or tools first. The following is the command execution to provide the dependency packages or tools information :
root@hostname:~# apt-cache depends build-essential
build-essential
|Depends: libc6-dev
Depends:
libc6-dev
Depends: gcc
Depends: g++
Depends: make
make-guile
Depends: dpkg-dev
root@hostname:~#
Based on the output of the command above, it is better to install build-essential because there are lots of useful package or tool aside from ‘gcc’ will be available by only installing ‘build-essential’ package.
First of all, check the availability of package or tool. Below is the command to accomplish the task :
apt-cache search "^build-essential$"
Thus, the output of the above command execution :
root@hostname:~# apt-cache search "^build-essential$" build-essential - Informational list of build-essential packages root@hostname:~#
Similarly, another command to accomplish the same task :
apt search "^build-essential$"
Again, the output of the above command execution :
root@hostnamer:~# apt search "^build-essential$" Sorting... Done Full Text Search... Done build-essential/bionic,now 12.4ubuntu1 amd64 [installed] Informational list of build-essential packages root@hostname:~#
Well, luckily the package exist the check whether the package or tool named ‘build-essential’ has been installed by executing the following command :
The following is the output of the above command execution :
root@localhost:~# apt-cache search --names-only "^gcc$" gcc - GNU C compiler root@localhost:~#
root@localhost:~# apt-cache depends build-essential
build-essential
|Depends: libc6-dev
Depends:
libc6-dev
Depends: gcc
Depends: g++
Depends: make
make-guile
Depends: dpkg-dev
root@localhost:~#
Solving the error by installing ‘build-essential’ package or tool
Finally, after ensuring the ‘build-essential’ package or tool is available, install it by typing the following command in the command line :
root@localhost:~# apt -y install build-essential Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... 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Setting up fakeroot (1.22-2ubuntu1) ... update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/fakeroot-sysv to provide /usr/bin/fakeroot (fakeroot) in auto mode Setting up libgcc-7-dev:amd64 (7.3.0-27ubuntu1~18.04) ... Setting up libstdc++-7-dev:amd64 (7.3.0-27ubuntu1~18.04) ... Setting up libalgorithm-merge-perl (0.08-3) ... Setting up libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl (0.04-5) ... Setting up gcc-7 (7.3.0-27ubuntu1~18.04) ... Setting up g++-7 (7.3.0-27ubuntu1~18.04) ... Setting up gcc (4:7.3.0-3ubuntu2.1) ... Setting up g++ (4:7.3.0-3ubuntu2.1) ... update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/g++ to provide /usr/bin/c++ (c++) in auto mode Setting up build-essential (12.4ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ... root@localhost:~#
As shown in the above output, the installation process of ‘build-essential’ ends successfully. It means the ‘gcc’ tool is available. So, try to execute the compile command again.