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From: John Kelly <bilbo@waitrose.com>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: C Compiler
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 11:10:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031227111042.48ffc559.bilbo@waitrose.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200312270820.hBR8Ked01366@skyinet.net>

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 16:20:40 +0800
Peter wrote:
> 
> Trying to install a program I get:
> 
> checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler cannot 
> create executables
> 
> when doing ./configure in RH9.
> 
> How do I correct this error?
 
I can't be of much help here since I stopped using RedHat at version 7.3. However it sounds like 
your C compiler may be broken.
What do you get from the following commands:

rpm -qa | grep gcc
gcc --version

Can you write a hello world program and compile it by hand?

If gcc is installed and working, perhaps the configure script is not finding it. 
Try ./configure --help. You can usually pass ./configure an option to force it to use your gcc. 

Hth.

John 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-12-27 11:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-27  8:20 C Compiler Peter
2003-12-27 10:18 ` Amin
2003-12-27 11:10 ` John Kelly [this message]
2003-12-27 17:46 ` caszonyi
2003-12-28  4:21 ` joy
2003-12-29 12:51   ` setgid: Operation not permitted chuck gelm net
2003-12-29 16:26     ` Ray Olszewski
2003-12-29 18:41       ` chuck gelm net
2003-12-30 18:26         ` Jos Lemmerling
2003-12-30  0:40       ` chuck gelm net
2003-12-29 20:44     ` caszonyi

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