configure crt1.o error on PPC64 RHEL

[Doug B]

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
>
>
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>