C compiler cannot create executables

[Paul Sladen]

On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Mark Jaffe wrote:
> I have seen this error before during autoconf, and it constantly eludes me as to
> the solution. Situation:

  sudo apt-get install build-essential

for all the basic stuff like GCC.  And then:

  sudo apt-get build-dep $package_name

to pull in the dependancies for a particular package you want to rebuild.

	-Paul
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