Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: From: David Humphrey To: "'Joan M Friedman'" , Charles Wilson Cc: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: RE: configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C co mpiler cannot create executables Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 18:39:19 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Funny thing that this one would come up on the list today. I ran into exactly the same problem while trying to compile libwmf. It turned out that configure was trying to use CC for the compiler, i.e., an undefined environment variable. I set CC=gcc and it worked fine. Regards, David L. Humphrey Director, Technical Services Bell Geospace, Inc > -----Original Message----- > From: Joan M Friedman [mailto:joan.friedman@ericsson.com] > Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 2:28 PM > To: Charles Wilson > Cc: 'cygwin@cygwin.com' > Subject: Re: configure: error: installation or configuration > problem: C > compiler cannot create executables > > > This turned out to be a path problem. configure worked after I removed > everything from > my windows-environment path that seemed unnecessary. I suspect the > culprit was an > environment variable called LIBS. > > Charles Wilson wrote: > > > > Check for case-sensitivity problems. IIRC, expat had some > files in it > > that differ only in case; this breaks badly on windows. > > > > --chuck > > > > Joan M Friedman wrote: > > > > > I've been searching the lists for a solution to this > problem - I can > > > find the problem posted, but not > > > the solution. > > > > > > While trying to run configure for expat in cygwin, the > gcc compiler > > > check fails. I removed > > > my previous cygwin installation (including removing all cygwin and > > > cygnus registry keys and searching > > > the file system for 'cyg'), emptied the recycle bin, > restarted, and did > > > a full clean install of the latest cygwin, > > > but it still happens. I have the results of configure, > gcc -v, and > > > cygcheck -s -r -v below. > > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/