[Xastir] configure problem

[James Jolin]

James Jolin wrote:
> Tom Russo wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 05:00:55PM -0600, we recorded a 
>> bogon-computron collision of the <jjolin at itol.com> flavor, containing:
>>  
>>> I thought I would go back to installing xastir with a tar 
>>> ball...don't know if I am comfortable with debian binaries in 
>>> kbuntu.  Anyway when I ran configure I got something I haven't seen 
>>> before and this is it:
>>> checking for C compiler default output file name....configure: 
>>> error: C compiler cannot
>>> create executables
>>> What is that all about.
>>>     
>>
>> Maybe you don't have a C compiler set up, or there are libraries 
>> missing that
>> cause the C compiler to puke on the test program that configure 
>> produces.
>>
>> Did you go through all the steps in the wiki page HowTo:Ubuntu 7.04?  
>> One of
>> the first steps is:
>>   sudo  apt-get install build-essential
>>
>> which should make sure you've got everything needed to get past that 
>> line of
>> configure.  There are lots of other steps.
>>
>> If that's not the issue, you can look in the file "configure.log" 
>> that is produced as a by-product of running configure.  In there 
>> you'll find the
>> actual error message given by the C compiler that caused configure to 
>> conclude
>> that the C compiler can't produce executables.
>>
>>   
> Sorry, I thought I had done the build-essential but it was obvious 
> that I hadn't.  Things seem to have compiled ok.  Thanks.
> Jim
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