configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables on AIX 6.1

Via Blackberry from summer vacation in France:

Seems you don't have a C compiler installed.

Get gcc from www.perzl.org (mind the dependencies!)  or buy xlC from IBM.

I got from my system,
lslpp -l | grep vac.C
  vac.C                      8.0.0.0  COMMITTED  IBM XL C Compiler
  vac.C                      8.0.0.0  COMMITTED  IBM XL C Compiler

which cc
/usr/bin/cc

oslevel -s
6100-06-05-1115

Please let me know is what I need to do.

Thanks

perzl.org has mc 4.7 as an RPM!

Do you haVe write permission to the directory you started configure from?

Ok, is this mc4.7 good for my system oslevel, what about mc 4.6.1?

yes I have write permission

Both mc versions are good. for AIX 6.1

If xlC or vsc.C is installed on the system, shall I need to install gcc in my case on the system

No, vaC is normally sufficient.

What do you get with just

cc

?

And you don't need any compiler to install an RPM package. AIX has the "rpm" utility on board.

I found two types of rpm,
1) mc-4.7.0.4-2.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
2) mc-4.7.0.4-2.src.rpm
Which one should be good to install

src is "source" to be compiled locally which doesn't seem to work in your enyironment), so use the other, precompiled one.

And don't worry about "5.1". It will work.

Ok Thanks

When I run install command, I got this,

root:/opt/ibm/mc47 --> rpm -i mc-4.7.0.4-2.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
        glib2 >= 2.20.5 is needed by mc-4.7.0.4-2
        slang >= 2.1.3 is needed by mc-4.7.0.4-2
        libslang.a(shr.o) is needed by mc-4.7.0.4-2

Now what I need to do, please let me know.

Get the missing requisites (which might have further requisites in their turn) from perzl.org and install them before reattempting the mc installation.

Thank you very much. Have a nice trip in France.