configure crt1.o error on PPC64 RHEL

[Doug B]

No other advice or ideas on what's misconfigured?

On 1/31/07, Doug B <ummmmm22 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I did try that, but the output configure script had no differences at
> all from the original one.  Needless to say, it reported the same
> error.
>
> On 1/31/07, Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at mapgears.com> wrote:
> > Perhaps you could try running 'autoconf' in the mapserver source
> > directory to regenerate the configure script. This should not be
> > required, but perhaps the version of autoconf on your server will
> > include the required paths in its C compiler tests.
> >
> > Daniel
> >
> >
> > Doug B wrote:
> > > The configure script is complaining that:
> > >
> > > checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error:
> > > C compiler cannot create executables
> > >
> > > config.log says:
> > >
> > > /usr/bin/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory
> > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > > configure:1704: $? = 1
> > > configure: failed program was:
> > > | /* confdefs.h.  */
> > > |
> > > | #define PACKAGE_NAME ""
> > > | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""
> > > | #define PACKAGE_VERSION ""
> > > | #define PACKAGE_STRING ""
> > > | #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
> > > | /* end confdefs.h.  */
> > > |
> > > | int
> > > | main ()
> > > | {
> > > |
> > > |   ;
> > > |   return 0;
> > > | }
> > > configure:1743: error: C compiler cannot create executables
> > >
> > > After a bit of searching, I see that glibc-devel is what provides this
> > > file, which I have now installed, but configure still gives the same
> > > error.  The file exists under /usr/lib64.
> > >
> > > I get the same results with MapServer 4.10.0, 4.8.4, and 4.6.2.  Line
> > > number above is from 4.8.4.  This is on RHEL 2.6.9-42 for PPC64.  I
> > > have no such problems on an old Fedora Core 2 system.
> > >
> > > Thanks for any assistance or advice.
> > > Doug
> >
> >
> > --
> > Daniel Morissette
> > http://www.mapgears.com/
> >
>