I had this problem last week. Ended up being a corrupt Perl installation.
Reinstalled Perl and all is fine again.
-----Original Message-----
From: John Hawk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 11:54 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] gcc compile error
On Thu, 08 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> Instaling gcc make and automake on a instalation afther the normanl install
> I get the following error on ./configure
>
> -----
> checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... no
> configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler
> cannot create executables.
> -----
>
> I used
> rpm --install ************
> to install the files. What did I do wrong and how can I fix this without
> reinstalling Mandrake 7.02
>
> I know that this program compiles with Mandrake if I do a devoloper instalation.
>
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Sounds like a ./configure --prefix=/usr is required on build
check and see if the software wasn't installed in /usr/local rather than /usr
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