From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Dave Pawson" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Building 22.1 Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 18:41:32 +0100 Message-ID: <711a73df0709071041s5deafe5ar6d96851e17da4f33@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189186967 13958 80.91.229.12 (7 Sep 2007 17:42:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 17:42:47 +0000 (UTC) To: emac Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 07 19:42:47 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IThqv-0005FG-9X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:42:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IThqt-0007cU-HQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:42:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IThpv-0006f2-CB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:41:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IThps-0006bO-VU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:41:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IThps-0006b2-He for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:41:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IThpr-0006bp-QB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:41:39 -0400 Original-Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.189]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IThpq-0006Ia-Dr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:41:38 -0400 Original-Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c27so439252rvf for ; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:41:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=4NoGm5DU6nfw48v6Pes83jn8SwKjPfiC17WVQ5raWO4=; b=n1luRtHJh5xE6vCc05niCGPBz2k7TcuYOTO3FuqBiiBqijsgcPmIMCF51FFIlSigz4vTkxYqYYxStd5waAF3NgoVVZ/csHmGFxH2xQABSlhL8MEDEGbBhYvGbLXxfrldbuvjzrQhcnWHnYVtOBMWLdmaR4ajVLMWM69VpiJMfYg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=UUBEgrgONOjYDZwa9Rnw5QmxRJOA8IK6AfvJMIoqepaSR5zNxym5w+oMgLC4yoNrHU4WyDhXyT18ATohQkoxyINoPu/AgfMYyeODgr81TDubaUN0J+ydPIycxr+SSbo5GQ/MJBZ+l3R5i2eX6ROoWTv3c0zmyG9nGCmafVekh20= Original-Received: by 10.141.5.3 with SMTP id h3mr815454rvi.1189186892636; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:41:32 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.141.3.17 with HTTP; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 10:41:32 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:47302 Archived-At: I've just moved from Fedora to Ubuntu 7.04(feisty fawn). By default they have emacs 21 installed so I'm trying to build 22.1 from source. ./configure shows root@marge:/temp/emacs-22.1# ./configure checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1 checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1 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. gcc shows gcc version 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4) the log shows configure:3670: result: configure: failed program was: | /* confdefs.h. */ | #define PACKAGE_NAME "" | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "" | #define PACKAGE_VERSION "" | #define PACKAGE_STRING "" | #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "" | #define MAIL_USE_POP 1 | /* end confdefs.h. */ | | int | main () | { | | ; | return 0; | } configure:3677: error: C compiler cannot create executables Any suggestions for a way forward please? regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk