Hi , I am compiling gcc 3.4.6 from source in RHEL 5 (this has gcc 4.1.2 ) I downloed all dependencies and started ./configure. It went fine. When I do make I get following error that cannot run C compiled programs. ..... ... checking for C compiler default output file name... b.out checking whether the C compiler works... configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs. If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'. See `config.log' for more details. make: *** [configure-gcc] Error 1 [root@localhost gcc-3.4.6]# [root@localhost gcc-3.4.6]# [root@localhost gcc-3.4.6]# cat config.log This file contains any messages produced by compilers while running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake. configure:581: checking host system type configure:602: checking target system type configure:620: checking build system type configure:675: checking for a BSD compatible install configure:2866: checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ar configure:2899: checking for ar configure:2938: checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-as configure:2971: checking for as configure:3010: checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-dlltool configure:3043: checking for dlltool configure:3082: checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ld configure:3115: checking for ld configure:3154: checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-nm configure:3187: checking for nm configure:3226: checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib configure:3259: checking for ranlib configure:3298: checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-windres configure:3331: checking for windres configure:3370: checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-objcopy configure:3403: checking for objcopy configure:3442: checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-objdump configure:3475: checking for objdump configure:3524: checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ar configure:3557: checking for ar configure:3596: checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-as configure:3629: checking for as configure:3668: checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-dlltool configure:3701: checking for dlltool configure:3740: checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ld configure:3773: checking for ld configure:3812: checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-nm configure:3845: checking for nm configure:3884: checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib configure:3917: checking for ranlib configure:3956: checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-windres configure:3989: checking for windres configure:4056: checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles [root@localhost gcc-3.4.6]# Can someone please tell me what I need to do to 'make' sucessfully Regards
It is typical error in absence of the execution rights on file system. Usually it is the tmp dir. Try to remount as follows mount -o,remount,rw,exec /var/tmp
