[companion-discuss] C compiler can't create output files

[Alan Coopersmith]

k wrote:
> I've ran few configure scripts and it is always the same:
> checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
> What does it mean? I have got cc, and I created gcc soft link to cc. It didn't work. I had no such problems under Linux, so I have no idea what do do. I've checked it as a superuser, and it is the same, so it is not the matter of privileges. Thanks for help.

Configure usually creates a config.log where the actual error
messages from the compiler are recorded - those are essential
for debugging what's going wrong in cases like this.

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