Re: Building 22.1

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 18:41:32 +0100
> From: "Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com>
> 
> 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?

Can you compile the above program from the command line?