configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
 

i get this message when compiling certain packages (its happened about 5 times in the last few days)

this comes from emerging dhcpcd i put the relevant compiler output there and the emerge error

checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
check `config.log' for details.

!!! ERROR: net-misc/dhcpcd-1.3.22_p4-r1 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 42, Exitcode 77
!!! (no error message)


anyone know whats going on??

bump

any suggestions at all would be helpful, just a place to start looking...just a starting point at all

I get the same error and I would like to know the answer too...

can you give us the last 20-30 lines of your config.log when the configure stage fails.

OK, I've found my solution... it is a very stupid one... it seemed like I forgot to install glibc in my minimal slack installation... sorry to mess up your topic with such an obvious thing... bye

you really should try a search on the forum with "c compiler cannot create executables"... you will see that a lot of people already asked this question...

configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
 

if use Debian, run apt-get install build-essential

I tried to install build-essential throgh Synaptic and command prompt but i am getting following error

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:


The following packages have unmet dependencies:
build-essential: Depends: libc6-dev but it is not going to be installed or
libc-dev
Depends: g++ (>= 4:4.1.1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

use below steps

# which gcc
/usr/local/bin/gcc
#which g++
/usr/local/bin/g++
#export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
# CC=/usr/local/bin ./configure

now your problem will solve.