[ale] Confusion compiling new software

[James P. Kinney III]

On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 15:21 -0400, Danny Cox wrote:
> 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.

One other trick to add to the toolbox is to run "make distclean" between
runs. This will make the directory (and its subs) dump everything not
out of the original source tarball. Some configs cause problems when
played in sequence.

> 
> 	HTH!
> 
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