On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Ben Hines wrote: > At 2:59 PM -0600 3/24/02, John Melby wrote: > > >>checking whether the C compiler (cc ) works... no > >>configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler > >>cannot create executables. > > > >However, when I use cc to compile a C program, everything works perfectly. > > > >Is it possible that only you and I are having this problem? Or is > >something rotten in the world of XFree86dom? > > You likely need the December 2001 devtools, not the ones that came with OS X. When this came up before, he swore up & down that he was using the current [Dec] version of the devtools. If that's really the case -- and I still have my doubts, but John is the one that would know -- then I'm wondering if something else was installed that mucked around with things. What, I have no idea. GNU-Darwin? MacGimp? Beats me, but the signature of this problem really does point to a missing or corrupted devtools installation.
The error lines above come from the './configure' phase of building, right? And configure scripts, as far as I know, interact with the system's autoconf command/library/thingy. So *maybe* there's a problem there, but again I'm not quite sure what. Did you try installing Fink's "autoconf", and did it work? Can you download & build other autoconf/configure using packages? (Before using Fink, I had installed my own copies of Vim, Pine, and a couple of others -- maybe something like that is worth a shot over in /usr/local.) Something about the interaction between autoconf (etc) and cc/gcc isn't right, but I can't say which end is causing the problem, or if it's something that comes in between them. You [John] say that you can get programs with straight cc to work: are these "hello world" type programs or can you do anything more complex than that? Rather than righteous indignation, maybe you could offer more diagnostic details... :) -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
