[ale] Confusion compiling new software

[Danny Cox]

Thompson,

On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 14:51 -0400, Thompson Freeman wrote:
> Still, if anybody has a clue, I sure would like to borrow  
> it for a while...
> 
<snip>

> Unfortunately, the configure step just blew up on me with  
> the line "checking for C compiler default output file  
> name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create  
> executables"  I attach the config.log for more details.
> 
> Any body know/guess what I've done wrong???

	You may not have done anything wrong.


	Look down in the log for the line which says:

configure:2455: gcc   /usr/lib conftest.c  >&5

That's the line that kills 'configure'.  It should read something like:

	gcc -l/usr/lib conftest.c >&5

where the -l went, I dunno.

	One thing to try, is punt: download the package again to a different
directory, and see if it behaves any differently.

	HTH!

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Daniel S. Cox
Internet Commerce Corporation