Comments on: checking for C compiler default output file name… configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

By: honk

honk — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:31:56 +0000

if you run a amd64 machine you also need libc6-dev-i368

By: renzo

renzo — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 02:48:48 +0000

i run ubuntu and have libc6-dev installed… and still got the same error message :S

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By: nunya

nunya — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 06:30:31 +0000

Rudi,

For ubuntu it is called libc6-dev.

apt-get install libc6-dev

By: Administrator

Administrator — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 19:13:17 +0000

I use PLD Linux and installin glibc-devel worked for me. It seems that it could have different name in Ubuntu, maybe.

My glibc-devel is based on http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/ - maybe try to find some libc libraries.

By: Rudi

Rudi — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 23:36:12 +0000

I tried to follow your recommendations, on a newly installed Ubuntu 5.10 server, but got this message:

root@Gimbli:/usr/local/src/ruby-1.8.3# apt-get install glibc-dev
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
E: Couldn’t find package glibc-dev

Installing gcc, returned this:

root@Gimbli:~# apt-get install gcc
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
binutils gcc-4.0
Suggested packages:
binutils-doc make manpages-dev autoconf automake1.9 libtool flex bison
gcc-doc gcc-4.0-doc gcc-4.0-locales libc6-dev-amd64 lib64gcc1
Recommended packages:
libc6-dev libc-dev libmudflap0-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
binutils gcc gcc-4.0
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 68 not upgraded.
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After unpacking 7811kB of additional disk space will be used.
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