From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 10 14:28:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BAE037B404 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 14:28:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 19B176A913; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 08:58:13 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 08:58:13 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: John Bolster Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: compiler not working Message-ID: <20010111085813.J44170@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from j.bol@gte.net on Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 04:53:42PM -0500 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 10 January 2001 at 16:53:42 -0500, John Bolster wrote: > Any ideas what I can do about this? This is from running ./configure for > maildrop: > > loading cache ./config.cache > checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c > checking whether build environment is sane... yes > checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes > checking for working aclocal... found > checking for working autoconf... found > checking for working automake... found > checking for working autoheader... found > checking for working makeinfo... found > checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes > checking for mawk... no > checking for gawk... no > checking for nawk... no > checking for awk... awk > checking for gcc... gcc > checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... no > configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot > create executables. I'd guess that this is a permission problem. Are you root? If not, does it happen after you become root? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message