./configure error: failed program was: /* confdefs.h. */

[Stephen Marsh]

Shouldn't the compiler be included in the gcc package repository? Is 
this an issue of a dependency that wasn't installed or an error in the 
repo?
 - Stephen



-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
To: Stephen Marsh <mars7017@netscape.net>
Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Sent: Fri, Jan 21, 2011 4:16 pm
Subject: Re: ./configure error: failed program was: /* confdefs.h.  */


Stephen Marsh <mars7017@netscape.net> writes:

> GCC version 4.41 installed through SliTaz Package manager won't allow
> me to install / build autocutsel ( http://www.nongnu.org/autocutsel/ )
> . Any suggestions why the failed program confdefs.h isn't working?

As the installation instruction say, we recommend against running
./configure.  Run configure in an empty directory instead.  I recommend
unpacking the sources from scratch to avoid confusion left behind by
./configure.

However, your specific problem is this:

> configure:2156: gcc    conftest.c  >&5
> gcc: error trying to exec 'as': execvp: No such file or directory

You don't have an assembler on your path.  Your compiler--the one you
are going to use to build gcc--doesn't work.

Ian