[conspire] Breezy Badger/configure something

[John Andrews]

Rick or Daniel
	I,ve been using Netzero with Breezy Badger and it works great. Connects 
easily and doesn't disconnect etc...
	I'm trying to do a beginners exercise configuring and making the Make file 
etc.. from a tar.gz file and installing it to make a workable program.I've 
run into a glitch which I am adding below.

jla at vstrom:~$ cd download
jla at vstrom:~/download$ ls
units-1.74  units-1.74.tar
jla at vstrom:~/download$ cd units-1.74
jla at vstrom:~/download/units-1.74$ ls
aclocal.m4    configure     install-sh     README     units.h
ansi2knr.1    configure.in  Makefile.dos   strfunc.c  units.info
ansi2knr.c    COPYING       Makefile.in    texi2man   units.man
ChangeLog     getopt1.c     mkinstalldirs  units.c    units.texinfo
confdefs.h    getopt.c      NEWS           units.dat
config.cache  getopt.h      parse.tab.c    units.doc
config.log    INSTALL       parse.y        units.dvi
It seems okay to this point.

Why doesn't this ./configure --prefix$HOME/unit174 command work right to tell 
configure to put the makefile in the ~/units174 directory? I copied it right 
directly from the exercise sheet.
jla at vstrom:~/download/units-1.74$ ./configure --prefix$HOME/units174
configure: error: --prefix/home/jla/units174: invalid option; use --help to 
show  usage
jla at vstrom:~/download/units-1.74$ echo $HOME
/home/jla
jla at vstrom:~/download/units-1.74$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/g 
ames
jla at vstrom:~/download/units-1.74$ sudo ./configure --prefix$HOME/units174
Password:
configure: error: --prefix/home/jla/units174: invalid option; use --help to 
show usage

WHAT IS THIS WEIRD GLITCH     (--helpjla at vstrom~/download$ ls)
I didn't type that strange --helpjla at vstrom:~/download$ ls
jla at vstrom:~/download/units-1.74$ configure --helpjla at vstrom:~/download$ ls
units-1.74  units-1.74.tar

THIS PART i THOUGHT SHOULD WORK CORRECTLY. Why isn't gcc on my $PATH. i know 
it's installed.
jla at vstrom:~/download$ cd units-1.74
jla at vstrom:~/download/units-1.74$ ./configure
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH
jla at vstrom:~/download/units-1.74$


bash: configure: command not found
jla at vstrom:~/download/units-1.74$

Any help would be appreciated. I don't think that this is that difficult.