turns out that the command line tools were not installed by default in xcode. installing them helped
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Mark Abraham <[email protected]>wrote: > Unfortunately, it means what it says. Xcode by default does not install the > command line compilers, so you might need to Google the solution for that. > > Mark > > On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 1:03 PM, maria goranovic > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Dear All > > > > I have a macbook pro, with mountain lion, with macports and xcode > > installed. When I try to configure gromacs via: > > > > ./configure > > > > I get the following error: > > > > checking for C compiler default output file name... > > configure: error: in `/Users/mariag/Downloads/gromacs-4.5.5': > > configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables > > > > A look into config.log show me this: > > > > #define GMX_QMMM_ORCA /**/ > > | #define BUILD_TIME "Tue Dec 25 13:01:52 CET 2012" > > | #define BUILD_USER "[email protected]" > > | #define BUILD_MACHINE "Darwin 12.2.0 x86_64" > > | /* end confdefs.h. */ > > | #include <stdio.h> > > | int > > | main () > > | { > > | FILE *f = fopen ("conftest.out", "w"); > > | return ferror (f) || fclose (f) != 0; > > | > > | ; > > | return 0; > > | } > > configure:4477: error: in `/Users/hkhandel/Downloads/gromacs-4.5.5': > > configure:4481: error: C compiler cannot create executables > > See `config.log' for more details. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Thank you > > > > > > -- > > Maria G. > > Technical University of Denmark > > Copenhagen > > -- > > gmx-users mailing list [email protected] > > http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users > > * Please search the archive at > > http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/Search before posting! > > * Please don't post (un)subscribe requests to the list. Use the > > www interface or send it to [email protected]. > > * Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists > > > -- > gmx-users mailing list [email protected] > http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users > * Please search the archive at > http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/Search before posting! > * Please don't post (un)subscribe requests to the list. Use the > www interface or send it to [email protected]. > * Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists > -- Maria G. Technical University of Denmark Copenhagen -- gmx-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users * Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/Search before posting! * Please don't post (un)subscribe requests to the list. Use the www interface or send it to [email protected]. * Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists

