Stop error when installing libtool

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 08:16:31PM -0800, Jose Borquez wrote:

> I am attempting to install gcc42 and I keep getting the following errors:

> ===>    Verifying install for /usr/local/bin/libtool in 
> /usr/ports/devel/libtool15
> ===>  Configuring for libtool-1.5.22_2

Note: not error in gcc 4.2.

> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c -o root -g 
> wheel
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking for gawk... no
> checking for mawk... no
> checking for nawk... nawk
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> checking for gcc... cc
> configure: WARNING: In the future, Autoconf will not detect cross-tools
> whose name does not start with the host triplet.  If you think this
> configuration is useful to you, please write to autoconf at gnu.org.
> checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C 
> compiler cannot create executables
> See `config.log' for more details.
> ===>  Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
> Please report the problem to ade at FreeBSD.org [maintainer] and attach the

You forgot to do this.

> "/usr/ports/devel/libtool15/work/libtool-1.5.22/config.log" including the
> output of the failure of your make command. Also, it might be a good idea to
> provide an overview of all packages installed on your system (e.g. an `ls
> /var/db/pkg`).

> Finally, here is the output of the config.log file:
> 
> This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
> running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
> 
> It was created by libtool configure 1.5.22, which was
> generated by GNU Autoconf 2.59c.  Invocation command line was
> 
>  $ ./configure --disable-ltdl-install --infodir=/usr/local/info 
> --prefix=/usr/l
> ocal --build=i386-portbld-freebsd5.4
> 
> ## --------- ##
> ## Platform. ##
> ## --------- ##
> 
> hostname = gohan.home.local
> uname -m = i386
> uname -r = 5.4-RELEASE-p12
> uname -s = FreeBSD
> uname -v = FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p12 #0: Wed Mar  1 22:52:57 PST 2006     
> root at goh
> an.home.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GOHAN
> 
> /usr/bin/uname -p = i386
> /bin/uname -X     = unknown
> 

Are you sure this is all of it?  It doesn't display the failing
compiler invocation.

What other settings have you changed on this machine, e.g. CFLAGS,
modified system compiler, etc?

Kris
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