error compiling...

[Kevin Faulkner]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Scott van Looy <scott at ethosuk.org.uk>
wrote:

> I execute ./configure on my x86_64 based system and get the following (for
> loads of software packages):
>
> 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 for style of include used by make... GNU
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name...
> configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
> See `config.log' for more details.
>
> Config.log contains the following:
>
> ## --------- ##
> ## Platform. ##
> ## --------- ##
>
> hostname = novak.ethosuk.org.uk
> uname -m = x86_64
> uname -r = 2.6.24.4-64.fc8
> uname -s = Linux
> uname -v = #1 SMP Sat Mar 29 09:15:49 EDT 2008
>
> /usr/bin/uname -p = unknown
> /bin/uname -X     = unknown
>
> /bin/arch              = x86_64
> /usr/bin/arch -k       = unknown
> /usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown
> /usr/bin/hostinfo      = unknown
> /bin/machine           = unknown
> /usr/bin/oslevel       = unknown
> /bin/universe          = unknown
>
> PATH: /usr/kerberos/bin
> PATH: /usr/local/bin
> PATH: /bin
> PATH: /usr/bin
> PATH: /usr/X11R6/bin
> PATH: /home/scott/bin
>
> and then
>
> Target: i686-pc-linux-gnu

What about gcc -dumpmachine?
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