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fwbackups install - C compiler cannot create executables

Post by Choco-Mint »

Not sure where my problem is here.

Running Linux Mint 14 Nadia 3.5.0-17-generic KDE 4.9.2

~/fwbackups-1.43.4 $ ./configure --prefix=/usr
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar
checking for a Python interpreter with version >= 2.4... python
checking for python... /usr/bin/python
checking for python version... 2.7
checking for python platform... linux2
checking for python script directory... ${prefix}/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
checking for python extension module directory... ${exec_prefix}/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/home/c/fwbackups-1.43.4':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details

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Part of config.log

configure:3085: checking for gcc
configure:3101: found /usr/bin/gcc
configure:3112: result: gcc
configure:3341: checking for C compiler version
configure:3350: gcc --version >&5
gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.2-2ubuntu1) 4.7.2
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

configure:3361: $? = 0
configure:3350: gcc -v >&5
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/i686-linux-gnu/4.7/lto-wrapper
Target: i686-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.2-2ubuntu1' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.7/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,c++,go,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --program-suffix=-4.7 --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.7 --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-plugin --enable-objc-gc --enable-targets=all --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686 --with-tune=generic --enable-checking=release --build=i686-linux-gnu --host=i686-linux-gnu --target=i686-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.7.2 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.2-2ubuntu1) 
configure:3361: $? = 0
configure:3350: gcc -V >&5
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-V'
gcc: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
configure:3361: $? = 4
configure:3350: gcc -qversion >&5
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-qversion'
gcc: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
configure:3361: $? = 4
configure:3381: checking whether the C compiler works
configure:3403: gcc    conftest.c  >&5
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find crt1.o: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find crti.o: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find crtn.o: No such file or directory
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:3407: $? = 1
configure:3445: result: no
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "fwbackups"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "fwbackups"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "1.43.4"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "fwbackups 1.43.4"
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
| #define PACKAGE_URL ""
| #define PACKAGE "fwbackups"
| #define VERSION "1.43.4"
| /* end confdefs.h.  */
| 
| int
| main ()
| {
| 
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }
configure:3450: error: in `/home/c/fwbackups-1.43.4':
configure:3452: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details
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Re: fwbackups install - C compiler cannot create executables

Post by jifalops »

Do `sudo apt-get install clang` and try again.
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Re: fwbackups install - C compiler cannot create executables

Post by karlchen »

jifalops wrote:Do `sudo apt-get install clang` and try again.
Chances are this will not do much, because
Choco-Mint wrote:Running Linux Mint 14 Nadia 3.5.0-17-generic KDE 4.9.2
Explanation: cannot install from software manager mint 14
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