Compiler error

[Thorne Lawler]

Zlaw,

Zlaw Du Pain wrote:
> Any tips on what's missing for compliling??, i'm getting this error message:
> 
> loading cache ./config.cache
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... no
> configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler 
> cannot create executables.

Try the following:
sudo apt-get install build-essential

Failing that, check that your gcc is actually a binary with this command:

file `which gcc`

(Note back-ticks, not single-quotes)

You should see somehting like this:
/usr/bin/gcc: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), 
for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

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