Hey people!

I am trying to build an rpm using krpmbuilder. The program seems to do its job when it comes to building the spec file, I have checked it against various other specs and I don't see any differences I could not explain by some good logic thinking. (Why is the name different :P) Anyhow, when I try to actually create the rpm, configure quits with the error that my "C compiler cannot create executables". I use gcc version 4.0.2 20050901. (got by 'gcc -v') Oddly enough, if I run ./configure in the directory itself, it finishes like it should do. So I am wondering what my mistake is.
Searching told me to look for glibc-devel, so in YaST I did a search but it was installed. I updated everything plus I installed all the other patches, same for gcc, still the error.

I'd be very thankful if anyone knows the answer and would be nice enough to share it with me ;-) Also, I'd like to know about manuals, how-to's, et cetera, about rpm creating, be it graphical like krpmbuilder, be it commandline.

Greets and thanks in advance!
Zsub.

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Okay, third edit. Could the fact that gcc is not able to create executables have something to do with the fact that the source is gzipped? I guess not, since it should be writing to a temp dir, but hey, you never know :-) I also read a post in a mailinglist somewhere, saying that the symlinks to gcc could be incorrect. Reinstalling gcc solved the problem there. I updated all packages of gcc and the like - which ought to give the same effect on SUSE&YaST - but that won't work for me.

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Sheesh, second edit already... krpmbuilder also won't build another source (gaim-1.5.0) exiting with the same error. "C compiler cannot create executables"

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Might be useful to have the log...

Building the spec file... done
Building package now...
Building target platforms: i386
Building for target i386
Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.29488
+ umask 022
+ cd /usr/src/packages/BUILD
+ rm -rf /var/tmp/build-root-keytouch
+ mkdir /var/tmp/build-root-keytouch
+ cd /usr/src/packages/BUILD
+ rm -rf keytouch-2.1.2
+ /usr/bin/gzip -dc /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/keytouch-2.1.2.tar.gz
+ tar -xf -
+ STATUS=0
+ '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'
+ cd keytouch-2.1.2
+ exit 0
Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.29488
+ umask 022
+ cd /usr/src/packages/BUILD
+ cd keytouch-2.1.2
+ CFLAGS='-O2 -g -march=i486 -fmessage-length=0 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2'
+ CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g -march=i486 -fmessage-length=0 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2'
+ ./configure --prefix=/opt/kde3
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
/usr/src/packages/BUILD/keytouch-2.1.2/missing: Unknown `--run' option
Try `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/keytouch-2.1.2/missing --help' for more information
configure: WARNING: `missing' script is too old or missing
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
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.
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.29488 (%build)


RPM build errors:
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.29488 (%build)

hello,
i red your message and have the same problem,perhaps
u read this after a time ago,
do you solve the problem?
greetings

Hello ram1234!

I kinda never got around it. It might be fixed though, in a next release. I don't know. I also haven't found out what causes this error, since no-one seemed to know back then :-)

Ciao!

hello,
another question,how do i start a new thread with my specific problem?
thanks,
greetings

apt-get install build-essential

install this and everything should be workin fine..