You need to look at 'config,log' to see why the C compiler can't create
executables. It could be a number of reasons, ranging from not having the
complete compiler toolset, to not having a full set of system headers, to
running out of disk space, to missing some critical library.

Ralph Mitchell

On 8/17/05, rajagopal.varadharajan_at_bt.com <rajagopal.varadharajan_at_bt.com>
wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am trying to compile curl from source, and I am getting the following
> error, can somebody help?
> echo $PATH
>
> /usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/ucb:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/xpg4/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local
> /ssl/bin
>
> ./configure --with-ssl=/usr/local/ssl
> checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
> checking for sed... /usr/bin/sed
> checking for ar... ar
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... ./install-sh -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking for gawk... no
> checking for mawk... no
> checking for nawk... nawk
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> checking curl version... 7.14.0
> checking build system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.8
> checking host system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.8
> checking for style of include used by make... GNU
> 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.
> # pwd
> /opt/bea/james/src/curl-7.14.0
>
> Cheers
> Rajan
>
Received on 2005-08-17