unrecognized command line option "-c" and "-pipe"

[Andrew Haley]

Fredrik Stridfeldt wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Trying to install a Perl module called Crypt::DES, when i run make
> (the perl Makefile.PL creates Makefile w/o problem),
> i get the following errors.
> 
> make
> gcc -c   -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing
> -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
> -I/usr/include/gdbm -O2 -g -pipe -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=pentium4
> -DVERSION=\"2.05\" -DXS_VERSION=\"2.05\" -fPIC
> "-I/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE"   DES.c
> gcc: error: unrecognized command line option "-c"
> gcc: error: unrecognized command line option "-pipe"
> gcc: error: unrecognized command line option "-pipe"
> 
> Version of gcc:
>  gcc --version
> GNU C version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-9) (i386-redhat-linux)
> compiled by GNU C version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-9).
> GGC heuristics: --param ggc-min-expand=99 --param ggc-min-heapsize=129322
> 
> Obviously gcc cant recognize "-c" and "-pipe"??
> 
> Anyone have any pointers of what i can do to make this work (update gcc?)
> Hope i get some respons in this forum ;:)

This is bizarre.  What heppens when you use gcc on its own, without "make" ?

Just cd to the appropriate directory and try the same command by hand.

Andrew.