From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20783 invoked by alias); 6 Jul 2006 01:40:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 20775 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Jul 2006 01:40:14 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp106.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (HELO smtp106.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com) (68.142.198.205) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with SMTP; Thu, 06 Jul 2006 01:40:10 +0000 Received: (qmail 44621 invoked from network); 6 Jul 2006 01:40:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?68.125.129.157?) (timothyprince@sbcglobal.net@68.125.129.157 with plain) by smtp106.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Jul 2006 01:40:08 -0000 Message-ID: <44AC69F6.806@sbcglobal.net> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 01:40:00 -0000 From: Tim Prince Reply-To: tprince@myrealbox.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables. References: <5358508.1152122291743.JavaMail.banjanap@mix.wvu.edu> In-Reply-To: <5358508.1152122291743.JavaMail.banjanap@mix.wvu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2006-07/txt/msg00118.txt.bz2 Bhagwan Anjanappa wrote: > HI all, > I am trying to configure httperf (web performance evaluator) on > Cygwin I am encountering a few errors which I think is native to > Cygwin. The first error I got was gcc not found but I went and > installed the gcc make and other packages. Now I have a new error > comming up whenever I try to run the configure command It says like > below > > loading cache ./config.cache > checking for gcc... gcc > checking wether the C compiler works..... no > configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler > cannot create executables > I'm not familiar with this particular application, but the normal expectation is that a file such as config.log will be created, which will enlighten you and us about the failing command. Many FAQs specifically dictate that you must show these details when asking for assistance. If config.log doesn't contain adequate detail, the diagnostics produced by repeating the failing invocation of gcc may be of use. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/