[Xastir] Install Problem

Jim jim at k4gvo.com
Sat Jul 24 13:33:54 EDT 2010


Jim wrote:
> Glenn Starling wrote:
>> I am using the Ubuntu Studio version of Ubuntu 10.4, which is their 
>> video
>> studio version.  I am following the How-To: Ubuntu 10.04 
>> instructions.  I
>> opted for the UbuntuGIS version of the Everything is fine until I got 
>> to the
>> commandto ../configure.
>>
>>
>>   The results are as follows:
>>
>> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
>> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
>> checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
>> checking for gawk... gawk
>> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
>>
>> Configuring xastir 1.9.9
>>
>> checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>> checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>> checking for style of include used by make... GNU
>> checking for gcc... gcc
>> checking whether the C compiler works... no
>> configure: error: in `/home/glenn/src/xastir/build':
>> configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
>> See `config.log' for more details.
>> glenn at video:~/src/xastir/build$ make
>> make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
>>
>>
>> So, the gcc compiler is there but doesnt work?  I saw in the configure
>> script the note that it tested for broken compilers, but I couldn
>> quite figure out what test it was performing, or what dependency was
>> missing that would make it fail to work properly.  Very possibly, the
>> media studio edition of Ubuntu doesn´t have some of the libraries
>> installed that the desktop version has.  If that is so, which do I
>> add?
>>
>> I realize this may be more of a compiler or Ubuntu problem than a
>> Xastir problem, but I´m confused!  Thanks for any help you can offer.
>>
>> -- Glenn Starling
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>>   
> apt-get install build-essential
>
> Just a guess without any additional info.
>
> Jim.
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And maybe apt-get install libc6-dev



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