configure not work

[Feiqi(Frank) Zhu]

Thanks for you guys's responses. You're right. the gcc in my machine didn't 
work right. I have downloaded a new gcc. It works now.

Thank,

Frank

On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Peter Samuelson wrote:

> 
> [Feiqi(Frank) Zhu <frankzhu at austin.ibm.com>]
> > checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O ) works... no
> > configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler 
> > cannot create executables.
> > 
> > But I do have gcc in the $PATH
> > # type gcc
> > gcc is /usr/contrib/bin/gcc
> > # gcc -v
> > Reading specs from 
> > /usr/contrib/depot/gcc2_8_1.913912630/rs_aix41/lib/gcc-lib/rs6000-ibm
> > -aix4.1.4.0/2.8.1/specs
> > gcc version 2.8.1
> 
> As Urban says, the error is that gcc doesn't seem to be working
> properly.  Check to see if you can compile and run a simple C program.
> Common problems are the lack of system header files and/or auxilliary
> utilities like `as' (the assembler) and `ld' (the linker/binder).  IRIX 
> pre-6.2 or so actually didn't come standard with any of these things!
> 
> Another thing to check, and this probably *isn't* your problem, is to
> re-run the gcc fixincludes script.  gcc mangles your system header
> files to fix common errors with ANSI-compliance, C++-safeness, etc, and
> stores a local copy of anything it had to fix.  That means that gcc
> compiled for 4.1.4 will have some outdated headers compared to 4.3.3,
> and these could conceivably cause problems in some applications.
> 
> A third thing would be to try upgrading gcc.  2.8.1 is positively
> *ancient*, and had a reputation for being rather buggy.  I've been
> running gcc 2.95.x on AIX for quite some time with no major problems.
> 
> Peter
>