I downloaded the xetex-0.998.3.tar.gz file from XeTeX website and first put that on my home folder and then opened a terminal and wrote these commands<br><br>vafa@vafa-laptop:~$ tar zxf xetex-0.998.3.tar.gz<br>vafa@vafa-laptop:~$ cd xetex-0.998.3<br>
vafa@vafa-laptop:~/xetex-0.998.3$ sh build-xetex<br><br>But it fails building and this is what I get:<br><br>###### BUILDING IN Work<br>###### CONFIGURING XETEX<br>### Using paths:<br>### PREFIX = /usr<br>### PREFIX realpath = /usr<br>
### DATADIR = /usr/share<br>### WEB2CDIR = /usr/share/texmf/web2c<br>### running TeX Live configure script as:<br>../configure --prefix=/usr --datadir=/usr/share --with-system-zlib --with-old-mac-fonts<br>
creating cache ./config.cache<br>checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes<br>checking for gcc... gcc<br>checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... no<br>configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables.<br>
### configure script appears to have failed<br>###### BUILDING LIBRARIES AND XETEX<br>find: warning: you have specified the -maxdepth option after a non-option argument -type, but options are not positional (-maxdepth affects tests specified before it as well as those specified after it). Please specify options before other arguments.<br>
<br>find: warning: you have specified the -mindepth option after a non-option argument -type, but options are not positional (-mindepth affects tests specified before it as well as those specified after it). Please specify options before other arguments.<br>
<br>find: Work/libs: No such file or directory<br>### Static libs to be built:<br><br>### Making xetex binary using: 'cd Work/texk/web2c && /usr/bin/make web2cdir=/usr/share/texmf/web2c xetex'<br>cd: 149: can't cd to Work/texk/web2c<br>
### failed to build the xetex binary<br><br><br><br>Does anyone knowwhat I need to do?<br><br>Thanks<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>"I hope to die ___ _____<br>before I *have* to use Microsoft Word.", 0--,| /OOOOOOO\<br>
Donald E. Knuth, 02-Oct-2001 in Tuebingen. <_/ / /OOOOOOOOOOO\<br> \ \/OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO\<br> \ OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO|//<br>Vafa Khalighi \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/<br> // / \\ \<br> ^^^^^ ^^^^^