From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2007-02-19T07:10:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Installing Ruby on Linux - Error

On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 06:04:42 +0900, Timothy Hunter wrote:

> Centipeed wrote:
>> I'm new to Linux, so it may well be that I'm missing some trivial.
>>
>> However, I have Ubuntu installed on my Laptop, and I downloaded the
>> Source for Ruby (ruby-1.8.5-p12), copied it across to my laptop (My
>> laptop does NOT have internet access, so I can't just apt-get,
>> unfortunately), and tried the following:
>>
>> ./configure
>>
>> It starts working, then right after "checking for C compiler default
>> ouput file name...", I get this:
>>
>> "configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables"
>>
>> Can anyone help me out with this one?
>>
>>
> I think Ubuntu doesn't install any developer tools by default. You need
> the GCC compiler, autoconf and friends, and the GNU binutils. Probably
> there's a package with everything you need, possibly called "developer
> tools" or something similar.

You'll need to install the package "build-essential" which will pull in a
GCC, G++, linkers, make, and the basic header files which belong in /usr/
include.

If you just have GCC installed, but not a linker, then your C compiler
cannot create executables and you'll get that error.

--Ken

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Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/