Digest MD5 not compiling, err msg confusing

ARiccela has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am trying to install Digest MD5 on a Linux box that was just rebuilt, but when I run make test I get the error below. The first line of the output seems to reference gcc, but then it fails the test because gcc can't be found...? Am I reading this right? Or is the first reference setting options for gcc, then going to look for gcc and it can't be found? gcc is present in the path /bin/sh so I am at a loss as to why I'm getting this err msg. Any help/direction/smacks upside the head are appreciated.

[root@]# make test

gcc -c   -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdecla
+ration-after-statement -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FI
+LE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTI
+FY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 
+-m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables   -DVERS
+ION=\"2.39\" -DXS_VERSION=\"2.39\" -fPIC "-I/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386
+-linux-thread-multi/CORE"   MD5.c
/bin/sh: gcc: command not found
make: *** [MD5.o] Error 127
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Re: Digest MD5 not compiling, err msg confusing by moritz (Cardinal) on Jul 15, 2009 at 15:20 UTC
What does `which gcc` print, if you type it in the same shell (as the same user) where you typed `make test`? And yes, you are reading it right, it means that the shell (/bin/sh) couldn't find the program gcc in `$PATH`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Digest MD5 not compiling, err msg confusing by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Jul 15, 2009 at 15:41 UTC
Just to expand a bit on moritz's fine answer: the first line that you see is make printing the next command that will be run. The last line is the output of the command, indicating that /bin/sh could not find gcc. --MidLifeXis The tomes, scrolls etc are dusty because they reside in a dusty old house, not because they're unused. --hangon in this post	[reply]
Re^2: Digest MD5 not compiling, err msg confusing by ARiccela (Novice) on Jul 16, 2009 at 11:13 UTC
Well, this is interesting. I'm not quite sure how to interpret this... `$ which gcc /usr/bin/which: no gcc in (/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/ +bin:/home/racmdb2/sqllib/bin:/home/racmdb2/sqllib/adm:/home/racmdb2/s +qllib/misc:/home/racm/bin)` [download] In our dev env the cmd outputs one line - /usr/bin/gcc. I've also found some other problems in this rebuilt box, not to be addressed here. But, if someone would explain the above, I'd appreciate it.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Digest MD5 not compiling, err msg confusing by moritz (Cardinal) on Jul 16, 2009 at 11:28 UTC
It means that gcc is not installed (most likely, and contrary to what you thought), or is installed in a non-standard location that's not in path, or it's not executable, or there is no symlink to gcc, just a `gcc-4.3` or whatever version you use.	[reply] [d/l]