error compiling...

[Scott van Looy]

Today Kevin Faulkner did spake thusly:

> 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?
>

gcc -dumpmachine
i686-pc-linux-gnu


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