asterisk users - Mar 2008 - C compiler cannot create executables when building zaptel

When attempting to build zaptel I get the following error:
configure:2184: error: C compiler cannot create executables

vi config.log
configure:2066: $? = 0
configure:2073: gcc -v >&5
Using built-in specs.
Target: i386-redhat-linux
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
--infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix
--enable-checking=release --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit
--disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-libgcj-multifile
--enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada --enable-java-awt=gtk
--disable-dssi --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-gcj-1.4.2.0/jre
--with-cpu=generic --host=i386-redhat-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-51)
configure:2076: $? = 0
configure:2083: gcc -V >&5
gcc: '-V' option must have argument
configure:2086: $? = 1
configure:2109: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:2136: gcc    conftest.c  >&5
collect2: vfork: Interrupted system call
configure:2139: $? = 0
configure:2177: result:
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h.  */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION ""
| #define PACKAGE_STRING ""
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
| #define _GNU_SOURCE 1
| /* end confdefs.h.  */
|
| int
| main ()
| {
|
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }

I believe I have all the necessary packages installed.

Having done some research, one link suggests using strace and in that case I
don't get the error:
strace -f -o /tmp/trace -e trace=process ./configure
...
configure: *** Zaptel build successfully configured ***

uname -a
Linux beta.domain.com 2.6.20-1.2320.fc5 #1 Tue Jun 12 18:50:38 EDT 2007 i686
i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Could anyone suggest why this is the case?

Regards

Cameron

CSB wrote:
>
>When attempting to build zaptel I get the following error:
>configure:2184: error: C compiler cannot create executables
>
on a Debian/Ubuntu-system

apt-get install build-essential make bin86

solved this problem for me.

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On 06:50, Thu 06 Mar 08, CSB wrote:
> When attempting to build zaptel I get the following error:
> configure:2184: error: C compiler cannot create executables
</snip>
> 
> I believe I have all the necessary packages installed.
> 
> Having done some research, one link suggests using strace and in that case
I
> don't get the error:
> strace -f -o /tmp/trace -e trace=process ./configure
> ...
> configure: *** Zaptel build successfully configured ***
> 
> uname -a
> Linux beta.domain.com 2.6.20-1.2320.fc5 #1 Tue Jun 12 18:50:38 EDT 2007
i686
> i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> Could anyone suggest why this is the case?
I had the same error on a clean ubuntu install.
What fixed it, is installing the build-essential package.
I dont know if fedora has the same package, but should be
something like this.

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On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 06:50:40AM +1300, CSB wrote:
> I believe I have all the necessary packages installed.
> 
> Having done some research, one link suggests using strace and in that case
I
> don't get the error:
> strace -f -o /tmp/trace -e trace=process ./configure
> ...
> configure: *** Zaptel build successfully configured ***
That's from the end of the configure script. Can you post your
config.log ?
> 
> uname -a
> Linux beta.domain.com 2.6.20-1.2320.fc5 #1 Tue Jun 12 18:50:38 EDT 2007
i686
> i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> Could anyone suggest why this is the case?
What version of Zaptel is it?

What is the output of:
  
  ./install_prereq test

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On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 07:26:21PM +0100, Stefan Guenther
wrote:
> CSB wrote:
> >
> >When attempting to build zaptel I get the following error:
> >configure:2184: error: C compiler cannot create executables
> >
> on a Debian/Ubuntu-system
> 
> apt-get install build-essential make bin86
$ apt-cache depends build-essential
build-essential
 |Depends: libc6-dev
  Depends: <libc-dev>
    libc6-dev
  Depends: gcc
  Depends: g++
  Depends: make
  Depends: dpkg-dev

So it pulls make as well. Are you sure bin86 is needed?

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On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 06:50:40AM +1300, CSB wrote:
> When attempting to build zaptel I get the following error:
> configure:2184: error: C compiler cannot create executables
Where do you actually get the error from? From the 'make' command? If
so: go chase errors in menuselect/configure

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