compilation error

Dave Dykstra dwd at bell-labs.com
Wed Oct 31 01:21:06 EST 2001


Sounds like your gcc is not installed properly.

- Dave Dykstra

On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 06:17:20PM -0500, SANJEEV wrote:
> I have two machine on which I am getting this error. Both machine is Solaris
> 7 and rsync version I am trying is 2.4.6.
> This is the error
> "checking whether the C compiler
> (gcc -O -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64  ) works... no
> configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot
> create executables."
> 
> when I saw the config.log file. Both have almost same error.
> 
> Machine1/config.log==>
> configure:698: checking for gcc
> configure:811: checking whether the C compiler
> (gcc -O -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64  ) works
> configure:827: gcc -o conftest -O -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
> conftest.c  1>&5
> /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/3.0/../../../../sparc-sun-solari
> s2.7/bin/ld: cannot open values-Xa.
> o: No such file or directory
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> configure: failed program was:
> 
> #line 822 "configure"
> #include "confdefs.h"
> 
> main(){return(0);}
> 
> Machine2/config.log ==>
> configure:698: checking for gcc
> configure:811: checking whether the C compiler
> (gcc -O -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64  ) works
> configure:827: gcc -o conftest -O -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
> conftest.c  1>&5
> /usr/local/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/bin/ld: cannot open values-Xa.o: No such
> file or directory
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> configure: failed program was:
> 
> #line 822 "configure"
> #include "confdefs.h"
> 
> main(){return(0);}
> 
> Thanks for any help here.
> -S
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Dykstra" <dwd at bell-labs.com>
> To: "SANJEEV" <jha_savi at hotmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 12:03 PM
> Subject: Re: compilation error
> 
> 
> > On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 03:50:46PM -0400, SANJEEV wrote:
> > > While running ./configure, I got an error as below -
> > > " compiler cannot create executables"
> > > before this error , it declares that OFFSET is 64.
> > > I also found on rsync.samba.org, which explains my problem.
> > > Note that on some systems you will have to force configure not to use
> > > gcc because gcc may not support some features (such as 64 bit file
> > > offsets) that your system may support. Set the environment variable CC
> > > to the name of your native compiler before running configure in this
> > > case.
> > >
> > > Now my question is how to set OFFSET --> 32 ?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> >
> > You may get a better response if you post again listing your operating
> > system and rsync version number.
> >
> > - Dave Dykstra
> >




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