The flip?

[Icarus]

I was running configure on dansguardian, and this came up:

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...
checking for C++ compiler default output file name... configure: error: C++ compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.


Salient portion of the log is this:

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configure:1958: g++    conftest.cc  >&5
/usr/bin/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:1961: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h.  */
|
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "dansguardian"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "dansguardian"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "2.9.5.0"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "dansguardian 2.9.5.0"
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
| #define PACKAGE "dansguardian"
| #define VERSION "2.9.5.0"
| /* end confdefs.h.  */
|
| int
| main ()
| {
|
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }
configure:2000: error: C++ compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

I just reinstalled G++ 4.0 using Synaptic today, and there weren't any errors that i recall.

[Slater]

uhm... I don't think that g++.out is in that dir...

[Icarus]

could you explain?

[Mithrandir]

I'm not sure where Slater was headed with that, but it looks like the log files indicate that it can't find ld in the location specified (/usr/bin/ld). Try using the which command to see where it's located. Like this:

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lum:~ mithrandir$ which ld
/usr/bin/ld

It should tell you where the ld command is on your distrobution. If it cannot find one, try using find to locate it:

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lum:~ mithrandir$ find / -name ld
/usr/bin/ld
[ NOTE: Lot's o permission errors left out on purpose ]

If you still can't find it, make sure the installer you are running is meant for your distrobution of Linux. If you're not sure, let us know what your distro is and we'll see if we can help track it down.

[shooraijin]

No, actually, I disagree: /usr/bin/ld is the executable raising the error. It's unable to find a crt1.o (crtl.o?) object file to link against.

This should be part of the standard compiler distribution. This may be helpful:

http://fredrik.hubbe.net/hacker/viewtopic.php?p=1296

I wonder if your gcc/g++ tools collection was incorrectly installed.

[Mithrandir]

Ah. I was a bit hasty there, I see; you're right. Trust shooby to keep my honest. Look for crt1.o (I don't think it's crtl.o, but you can check for that) using the find command above. You should see:

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lum:~ mithrandir$ find / -name crt1.o
/usr/lib/crt1.o


If you don't find it, you may want to reinsall glibcc.


edit: Ah. Check out shooby's link there. That's much more elegant than my post here.

[Icarus]

thank you, thank you.