Please forgive my previous post, I accidentally sent it to the wrong message.
Victor
Steven Cook wrote:
> Hi,
> This is my first post as I just subscribed, so I'm sorry if I'm going over
> old ground. I recently installed Mandrake 7.0 on a new disk in a PII 233Mhz
> machine. I am trying to learn how to install packages from a "tarball" but
> run into a problem when I try to run ./configure, it fails with the
> following error:-
>
> "checking whether C compiler (gcc) works....no
> configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot
> create executables"
>
> I looked in the configure log and found the following, however I have no
> idea what it's trying to tell me, am I missing a file (conftest or
> conftest.c)?
>
> "This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
> running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
>
> configure:562: checking for extra includes
> configure:593: checking for extra libs
> configure:692: checking host system type
> configure:713: checking target system type
> configure:731: checking build system type
> configure:790: checking for a BSD compatible install
> configure:847: checking for -p flag to install
> configure:870: checking whether build environment is sane
> configure:908: checking whether make sets ${MAKE}
> configure:954: checking for working aclocal
> configure:967: checking for working autoconf
> configure:980: checking for working automake
> configure:993: checking for working autoheader
> configure:1006: checking for working makeinfo
> configure:1031: checking for a BSD compatible install
> configure:1125: checking for a C-Compiler
> configure:1131: checking for gcc
> configure:1237: checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works
> configure:1253: gcc -o conftest conftest.c 1>&5
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot open crt1.o: No such file or directory
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> configure: failed program was:
>
> #line 1248 "configure"
> #include "confdefs.h"
>
> main(){return(0);} "
> I'd really appreciate any help, I've already "verified" that gcc is
> installed correctly, but have no idea where to go from here!
> Thanks
> Steven Cook
