Re: configure error: C compiler cannot create executables

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com>]

andy baxter wrote:

> this is what seems to be the relevant part of config.log:
> 
> gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)
> configure:1591: $? = 0
> configure:1593: gcc -V </dev/null >&5
> gcc: '-V' option must have argument
> configure:1596: $? = 1
> configure:1619: checking for C compiler default output file name
> configure:1622: gcc    conftest.c  >&5
> /usr/bin/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory

This is your error. Install libc6-dev and hopefully that will solve this
problem. If that does not solve, please tell us what your architecture is,
what distribution you are using - stable/testing/unstable?

hth
raju
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