On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 01:38:58PM +0530, just starting wrote:

> hi, > > >>>>what is the content of objs/autoconf.err? > ---------------------------------------- > checking for C compiler > objs/autotest.c:2:23: /usr/include/sys/types.h: Permission denied > ---------- > #include <sys/types.h> > > int main() { > ; > return 0; > } > ---------- > gcc -o objs/autotest objs/autotest.c > ---------- > >>> gcc-version > gcc version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-9) > > >>>what is the output of rpm -qa|egrep gcc? > > compat-gcc-32-3.2.3-47.3 > gcc-java-3.4.6-9 > gcc4-c++-4.1.2-14.EL4 > compat-gcc-32-c++-3.2.3-47.3 > libgcc-3.4.6-9 > gcc-3.4.6-9 > gcc4-4.1.2-14.EL4 > gcc4-gfortran-4.1.2-14.EL4 > gcc-objc-3.4.6-9 > gcc-gnat-3.4.6-9 > gcc-c++-3.4.6-9 > gcc-g77-3.4.6-9 > gcc4-java-4.1.2-14.EL4 > > Ok, what I think is happening is I have to do sudo ./configure. > > Developers can help in pointing out the error file generated after build.

You have a broken developmnet environment: header files should be available to read for everyone. You should not run ./configure and make under root.