From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: joy Subject: Re: C Compiler Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 09:51:39 +0530 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3FEE5A53.4010401@sancharnet.in> References: <200312270820.hBR8Ked01366@skyinet.net> Reply-To: gracecott@sancharnet.in Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed"; charset="us-ascii" To: Peter Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Peter wrote: >Season Greetings! > >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? > >Thanks & regards > > I used to get the same message on my Deb system. I had not installed glibc ( I was trying to do everything manually :-) and some other packages related to gcc. reinstall gcc from scratch and you are done. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs