On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 04:32:14PM +0200, sebastian guttenberg wrote:
> Hi all
> Sorry for bothering you with beginners' questions. But I want to test
> especially Stefan Schimanski's new math-macro implementation and
> therefore I tried to compile the svn repositories - and failed.
> As I am a beginner in compiling, I just followed the instructions. So
> what I did was the following:
>
> - Getting the source code via
> svn co svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk lyx-devel
>
> - Switching to lyx-devel directory and execute:
> ./autogen.sh
>
> - running then ./configure gives the error message:
> configure error: cannot run C compiled programs
>
> The full output was:
> "sudo sh ./configure
> configuring LyX version 1.6.0svn
> WARNING: This is a development version. Expect bugs.
> checking for version suffix...
> checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking what packaging should be used... posix
> checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles...
> yes
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
> checking for gawk... gawk
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking for gawk... (cached) gawk
> checking for kpsewhich... kpsewhich
> checking for gm4... no
> checking for gnum4... no
> checking for m4... m4
> checking for a Python interpreter with version >= 2.3... python
> checking for python... /usr/bin/python
> checking for python version... 2.5
> checking for python platform... linux2
> checking for python script directory...
> ${prefix}/lib/python2.5/site-packages
> checking for python extension module directory...
> ${exec_prefix}/lib/python2.5/site-packages
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking whether the C compiler works... configure: error: cannot run C
> compiled programs.
> If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
> See `config.log' for more details. "
>
> Can someone give me a hint what I did wrong? Thanks,
Is this a filesystem that's mounted with 'noexec' (or something similar
prohibiting execution)?
Andre'
