configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

[Stefanita Rares Dumitrescu]

Hey guys,

I posted this a while ago, does anyone have any suggestions please?

On 16/04/2014 12:10, Stefanita Rares Dumitrescu wrote:
> Hi guys,  i have a problem over here.
>
> I can't upgrade any packages because i am getting "configure: error: C 
> compiler cannot create executables"
>
> Here's the part where it fails from config.log.
>
> configure:3448: checking whether the C compiler works
> configure:3470: cc -I/usr/local/include -O2 -pipe 
> -fno-strict-aliasing   -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib -pthread 
> conftest.c -L/usr/local/lib  -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib 
> -pthread >&5
> /usr/lib/libpthread.so: undefined reference to 
> `__elf_phdr_match_addr at FBSDprivate_1.0'
> configure:3474: $? = 1
> configure:3512: result: no
> configure: failed program was:
> | /* confdefs.h */
> | #define PACKAGE_NAME ""
> | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""
> | #define PACKAGE_VERSION ""
> | #define PACKAGE_STRING ""
> | #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
> | #define PACKAGE_URL ""
> | #define CANONICALIZATION_FOR_MATHN 1
> | /* end confdefs.h.  */
> |
> | int
> | main ()
> | {
> |
> |   ;
> |   return 0;
> | }
> configure:3517: error: in `/usr/ports/lang/ruby19/work/ruby-1.9.3-p484':
> configure:3520: error: C compiler cannot create executables
> See `config.log' for more details
>
> The thing with this system is: i was using a custom kernel, and i 
> tried to upgrade to freebsd 8.4 from 8.3. I didn't realise that the 
> kernel did not get upgraded after the freebsd-update utility ran, and 
> i am still running the 8.3 kernel but seemingly on a 8.4 system.
>
> I can't recompile world/kernel right now because it errors out at 
> pthreads.
>
> Do you have any idea on what could i do to get the system back in 
> shape ? The thing is i am cautious with this, since it's a production 
> server.
>
> The thing is i have upgraded about 13 other machines from either 8.3 
> to 8.4 or 9.0->9.2 without issues, and only this one borked out.
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