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On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:24:02 +0000 Neil Winchurst <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Usually, using Kubuntu, I don't go through the configure, make, make > install r1gmarole. However yesterday I did try to install a program > in that way. $ sudo apt-get install build-essential ? > In configure I got an error message ... > > <snip> > > checking whether ln -s works... yes > checking for gcc... gcc > checking for C compiler default output file name... > configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables Usually a mis-configuration in the package or a missing g++ (if the package uses C++). > See `config.log' for more details. And? what does config.log say? > I did look at the log, but could not fathom out the problem. Paste it somewhere. > And, > yes, GCC is installed. g++ might not be. > I could not understand the reference to 'main' > either. Check the ./configure script - what is happening is that ./configure is writing a test program that contains 'main' and it then tries to compile it - when it fails. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/
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