[ale] Oracle on Linux problem

[fletch at phydeaux.org (Mike Fletcher)]

>>>>> "Quinton" == Quinton McCombs <quintonm at bellsouth.net> writes:

[...]

    Quinton> directory | | | |ntcontab.c:7: sys/types.h: No such file
    Quinton> or directory | | | |mv: ntcontab.o: No such file or
    Quinton> directory | | |

[...]

    Quinton> Same thing here.  Retry has no effect.  Telling the
    Quinton> installer to ignore causes it to abort the installation.

	Judging by the error message, it looks like you probably don't
have the standard header files.  It's looking for what would normally
be `/usr/include/sys/types.h'.  Check if you've got files in your
/usr/include directory (there should be bunches of them that end with
`.h'), that your compiler is installed correctly and can find said
headers (try the shell script below).  If you're on a RedHat box, try
the command `rpm --verify glibc-devel' and make sure that that package 
is installed and nothing's missing from it.

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#! /bin/sh
cat >/tmp/cctest.c <<EOT
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>

int main( int argc, char **argv ) {
  printf( "eat my shorts, world\n" );
  exit( 0 );
}
EOT

cc -o /tmp/cctest /tmp/cctest.c

if [ -x /tmp/cctest ] ; then
  /tmp/cctest
fi

rm -f /tmp/cctest.c /tmp/cctest

exit 0
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