dear michael,
i did check the config.log
and this is what it says..........
## ----------- ##
## Core tests. ##
## ----------- ##

configure:1615: checking build system type
configure:1633: result: i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
configure:1641: checking host system type
configure:1655: result: i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
configure:1663: checking target system type
configure:1677: result: i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
configure:1706: checking for a BSD-compatible install
configure:1761: result: /usr/bin/install -c
configure:1772: checking whether build environment is sane
configure:1815: result: yes
configure:1880: checking for gawk
configure:1909: result: no
configure:1880: checking for mawk
configure:1896: found /usr/bin/mawk
configure:1906: result: mawk
configure:1916: checking whether make sets $(MAKE)
configure:1936: result: yes
configure:2145: checking configure arguments
configure:3722: result: done
configure:3890: checking for cc
configure:3906: found /usr/bin/cc
configure:3916: result: cc
configure:3940: checking for ar
configure:3956: found /usr/bin/ar
configure:3966: result: ar
configure:4025: checking for style of include used by make
configure:4053: result: GNU
configure:4394: checking for C compiler version
configure:4397: cc --version </dev/null >&5
cc (GCC) 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

configure:4400: $? = 0
configure:4402: cc -v </dev/null >&5
Using built-in specs.
Target: i486-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,treelang --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls --program-suffix=-4.1 --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-mpfr --with-tune=i686 --enable-checking=release i486-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)
configure:4405: $? = 0
configure:4407: cc -V </dev/null >&5
cc: '-V' option must have argument
configure:4410: $? = 1
configure:4433: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:4436: cc    conftest.c >&5
/usr/bin/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:4439: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h. */
|
| #define PACKAGE_NAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION ""
| #define PACKAGE_STRING ""
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
| #define OPENLDAP_PACKAGE "OpenLDAP"
| #define OPENLDAP_VERSION "2.4.7"
| #define LDAP_VENDOR_VERSION 20407
| #define LDAP_VENDOR_VERSION_MAJOR 2
| #define LDAP_VENDOR_VERSION_MINOR 4
| #define LDAP_VENDOR_VERSION_PATCH 7
| #define HAVE_MKVERSION 1
| /* end confdefs.h. */
|
| int
| main ()
| {
|
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }
configure:4478: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

what should have been wrong...........................

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com> wrote:

naveen mudunuru wrote:
> dear all,
> i'm a newbie . when i was trying to configure OpenLDAP.
> i got an error saying.
>
> the c compiler is unable to create executables .

Please check whether the configure script can find the gcc executable.
Search file config.log for gcc after running configure.

Ciao, Michael.

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