samba - Aug 2000 - configure not work

Hello,

I have downloaded the samba-2.0.7 source code into my AIX 4.3.3 machine.
When I tried to run configure to compile the samba, I got the error:

# ./configure
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for gcc... gcc
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


Any ideas will be appreciated.

Frank

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Feiqi(Frank) Zhu wrote:
> checking for gcc... gcc
> 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
It doesn't say that it can't find the C compiler, it says it can't
produce
an executable (I know, never trust an error message ...). Check the
config.log, it will show you what it is failing on.

Can you compile other stuff?

/Urban

[Feiqi(Frank) Zhu <frankzhu@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compiled for 4.1.4 will have some outdated headers compared to 4.3.3,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