ignorant compiler questions

[rioguia]

i've been working on some software that required that i try to compile programs rather than relying on rpms. i've been running into errors and have so little understanding of the issues that i can't even formulate an intelligent question. can anyone point me to a website or short book that will explain the basics to me?

Extra points if you can explain to me the relationship between these references to compilers below (i've been getting dependency issues and have had a hard time sorting through them)

*GCC 2.7 (this is what i need to compile apache but my glibc is only 2.2 -- is this a problem?)
*GNU Compiler
*g++/ C++ compiler
*Glibc -
*ACS C++ state engine and IVR components
*libc.so.6

[askrieger]

Look at the Newbie Help File on "Compiling Software". It will tell you what you need to know.

It's listed under "Compiling Kernels" which is a little strange because you need to know a lot more to compile a kernel than you do to compile ordinary applications from source files.

[tdhurd]

I don't know if this will help, but you can easily try it.

$rpm -qa | grep "gcc"
gcc-2.96-81

I assume this means that I have gcc version 2.96 build 81 on my system?

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