No C compiler on EC2?

Question

I\'ve been trying to install Gearman on my EC2 instance, but when I try to ./configure gearmand, I get this:

checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-lin         


        

Answer 1

You can get around this by linking /usr/bin/gcc to /usr/bin/gcc46 using this command:

ln /usr/bin/gcc46 /usr/bin/gcc

When you upgrade gcc, you can then keep multiple versions with binaries named /usr/bin/gccXX and simple point the /usr/bin/gcc link to the version you want to use (which will probably be the newest one).