I'm trying to build the lame shared libary from source and get this error.

Any ideas what's wrong?



[332]$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
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.





Here's part of config.log that seems to have something to do with this:


Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)
configure:2454: $? = 0
configure:2456: gcc -V </dev/null >&5
gcc: '-V' option must have argument
configure:2459: $? = 1
configure:2482: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:2485: gcc conftest.c >&5
/usr/bin/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:2488: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h. */
|
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "lame"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "lame"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "3.97"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "lame 3.97"
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "lame-dev@lists.sf.net"
| #define PACKAGE "lame"
| #define VERSION "3.97"
| /* end confdefs.h. */
|
| int
| main ()
| {
|
| ;
| return 0;
| }
configure:2527: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

First, why don't you install lame from the Ubuntu repositories rather than build it yourself?

You likely don't have the development packages for libc. Try installing the development files. Probably something like apt-get install libc6-dev.

Yup, it needed the development libraries. Hmmm, wonder why gcc would be there by default but not the libraries

Anyway, I wanted to get lame for audacity, and I got a google hit on how to install lame with an 'apt-get install lame' but I couldn't find the .so it wanted after the install so I uninstalled it.

The next google hit showed how to get a tar.gz file, and in one command to build the .so library and NOT put it into your system library, which I thought was a good idea (no sudo needed).

Anyway, now it works. Thanks!