From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25267 invoked by alias); 26 Jan 2012 10:41:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 25257 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Jan 2012 10:41:37 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from localhost (HELO gcc.gnu.org) (127.0.0.1) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:41:25 +0000 From: "redi at gcc dot gnu.org" To: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org Subject: [Bug bootstrap/52007] configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:56:00 -0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: gcc X-Bugzilla-Component: bootstrap X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: normal X-Bugzilla-Who: redi at gcc dot gnu.org X-Bugzilla-Status: RESOLVED X-Bugzilla-Priority: P3 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: X-Bugzilla-URL: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: contact gcc-bugs-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-bugs-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2012-01/txt/msg03025.txt.bz2 http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52007 --- Comment #5 from Jonathan Wakely 2012-01-26 10:41:20 UTC --- The problem you're facing is that you didn't read the documentation on installing GCC, starting at http://gcc.gnu.org/install/ and summarised at http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/InstallingGCC We can't really help you if you don't read the documentation. The first prerequisite for compiling GCC is a working compiler. You've told configure to use CC=gcc but apparently you don't have gcc installed. That's not going to work. If it's a rhel5 box then install the gcc rpm.