I am running a newly installed Debian sid system. I am trying to compile a window decoration since the deb package isn't for 64bit. Here is what I get after doing ./configure on the sources......

checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for -p flag to install... yes
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.


Here is the top portion of the config.log....not all of it since it is lengthy....
## ----------- ##
## Core tests. ##
## ----------- ##

configure:1543: checking build system type
configure:1561: result: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
configure:1569: checking host system type
configure:1583: result: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
configure:1591: checking target system type
configure:1605: result: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
configure:1652: checking for a BSD-compatible install
configure:1707: result: /usr/bin/install -c
configure:1722: checking for -p flag to install
configure:1735: result: yes
configure:1746: checking whether build environment is sane
configure:1789: result: yes
configure:1809: checking for gawk
configure:1838: result: no
configure:1809: checking for mawk
configure:1825: found /usr/bin/mawk
configure:1835: result: mawk
configure:1845: checking whether make sets $(MAKE)
configure:1865: result: yes
configure:2071: checking for style of include used by make
configure:2099: result: GNU
configure:2246: checking for gcc
configure:2262: found /usr/bin/gcc
configure:2272: result: gcc
configure:2516: checking for C compiler version
configure:2519: gcc --version </dev/null >&5
gcc (GCC) 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-2)
Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

configure:2522: $? = 0
configure:2524: gcc -v </dev/null >&5
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/x86_64-linux/3.3.5/specs
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,pascal,objc,ada,treelang --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.3 --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-debug --enable-java-gc=boehm --enable-java-awt=xlib --enable-objc-gc --disable-multilib x86_64-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-2)
configure:2527: $? = 0
configure:2529: gcc -V </dev/null >&5
gcc: `-V' option must have argument
configure:2532: $? = 1
configure:2555: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:2558: gcc conftest.c >&5
/usr/bin/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:2561: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h. */
|
| #define PACKAGE_NAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION ""
| #define PACKAGE_STRING ""
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
| #define PACKAGE "crystal"
| #define VERSION "0.7"
| /* end confdefs.h. */
|
| int
| main ()
| {
|
| ;
| return 0;
| }
configure:2600: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.


OK what's missing, or what's wrong here?

"OK what's missing, or what's wrong here?"

The important error message is:
"/usr/bin/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory"

On my system crt1.0 is in /usr/lib. Debian may be different. You can use the find command to look for crt1.o

find /usr -iname "*crt1.o*"
find /lib -iname "*crt1.o*"

On my system /usr/lib/crt1.o is provided by a package called glibc-devel. Debian probably provides a package with a similar name.

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Steve Stites

I installed libc6-dev and it fixed the problem. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Now I'm working on fixing other dependencies so I can compile...

i'm installing zebra and face problem executing it with error message:

"can't open configuration file [/usr/local/etc/zebra.conf]"

and when i check through the intall.txt i found there is a problem when i issue command CC=c89 CFLAGS=-O2 LIBS=-lposix ./configure
and here is the error message:

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

anybody pls me help solving this problem. thanks

You may be missing a c library or something. For Debian I installed libc6-dev, but whatever distro jailbait is running calls the package glibc-devel