Most likely is that gcc was never installed.
Put in your installation disk and tell it you
want to do an upgrade in expert mode.
Go through and have it install the compiler.
Make sure you have it install all the development
libraries also.
And Bob's your uncle.
Dana
----- Original Message -----
From: Steven Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Linux-Mandrake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 4:42 PM
Subject: [newbie] C compiler cannot create executables
> *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro*
> 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
>
>
