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Dan
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Member # 106

posted October 11, 2001 03:49 AM

In my attempts to compile _anything_ on darwin, configure always squawks at me with this - for example:

code:

 $ ./configure
loading cache ./config.cache
configuring for GNU Wget 1.7
checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin1.4
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking build system type... powerpc-apple-darwin1.4
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables.

I can give more info however I presume this is an easy one for you all. If this isn't a common problem, I'll gladly list more details about my system. Thanks for any help

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apex
Administrator
Member # 1

posted October 11, 2001 12:40 PM

From previous post by Jasont:
[code]
Make sure you have the directories:
/usr/local/bin
Check with ls /usr/local and ls /usr/local/bin
If not you want to create them with:
mkdir /usr/local
mkdir /usr/local/bin

Make symbolic links
ln -s /usr/bin/cc /usr/bin/gcc
ln -s /usr/bin/c++ /usr/bin/g++
ln -s /usr/bin/cc /usr/local/bin/gcc
ln -s /usr/bin/c++ /usr/local/bin/g++
[code]

*you may want to do this as root*

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apex
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Member # 1

posted October 11, 2001 12:42 PM

You may also want to take a look at config.log. It should show you exactly what is produicing the error.

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Dan
Member
Member # 106

posted October 11, 2001 01:50 PM

I suppose if I'm gonna run 10.1, I should also install the appropriate 10.1 dev tools hehe

That's what solved it - upgrading the tools. Thanks for your help apex!

I'm up and running again -

I get all kinds of good errors now

code:

 ...gcc -I. -I.    -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DSYSTEM_WGETRC=\"/usr/local/etc/wgetrc\" -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -g -O2 -c html-parse.c
html-parse.c: In function `advance_declaration':
html-parse.c:449: character constant too long
html-parse.c:449: parse error before character constant
html-parse.c:449: stray '\' in program
html-parse.c:454: character constant too long
html-parse.c:461: character constant too long
html-parse.c:472: character constant too long
html-parse.c:481: character constant too long
html-parse.c:481: character constant too long
html-parse.c:481: stray '\' in program
html-parse.c:773: Unterminated string constant
make[1]: *** [html-parse.o] Error 1
make: *** [src] Error 2

I'll attempt to figure these out for awhile ... I'm just happy I'm getting some decent errors heh

[ October 11, 2001: Message edited by: Dan ]

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eikay
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Member # 346

posted March 01, 2002 03:20 AM

Hi, there.

I just had the same problem, but it'll work if you set the proper argument for the C compiler. In my case, the following worked.

When you execute ./configure, make it like this:
env CC=cc ./configure

Hope it'll help...

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posted February 22, 2003 09:19 PM

I just had this same error -- so frustrating!

My problem turned out to be that I lacked execute permission for /usr/bin/gcc and /usr/bin/g++ (or whatever they linked to).

I logged in as root and did a few commands like
chmod 755 /usr/bin/gcc
That fixed it (for now, at least).

To find out exactly where these gcc executables were, I typed
whereis gcc
whereis g++

Good Luck,
Mac

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