Asterisk: The Future of Telephony, 2nd Edition

Common Compiling Issues

There are many common compiling issues that users often run into. Here are some of the more common problems, and how to resolve them.

Asterisk

First, let’s take a look at some of the errors you may encounter when running the configure script.

configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH

If you receive the following error while attempting to run the configure script, you must install the gcc compiler and its dependencies:

configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH

The following packages are required for gcc:

• gcc

• cpp

• glibc-headers

• glibc-devel

• glibc-kernheaders

These can be installed manually, by copying the files off of your distribution disks, or through the yum package manager, with the command yum install gcc.

configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

The following error will be displayed if no C++ preprocessor is found installed on the system. You must install the gcc-c++ package and its dependencies:

configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

The following packages are required for the gcc-c++ preprocessor; installed by running yum install gcc-c++:

• gcc-c++

• libstdc++-devel

configure: error: *** termcap support not found

The following error may be encountered during initialization of the configure script if the libtermcap-devel package is not installed:

configure: error: *** termcap support not found

The following file is required in order to compile Asterisk; it can be installed with the yum install libtermcap-devel ...