On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Philip Gabrielsen wrote:
I get an error i can't get away from, when running ./configure
Error i get: philip@zimba:/usr/local/openldap-2.4.11$ ./configure Configuring OpenLDAP 2.4.11-Release ... checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1 checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1 checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
Whoa, really? This is a Linux system that hasn't been updated since the 1990's? Or do you have some cross-compilation tools installed in your path?
If it really is that old, then your first step needs to be "upgrade to a newer Linux distribution". Such an old system does not have correct thread support.
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checking for gcc... /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/cc1
This is bogus: cc1 is not a C compiler, but rather just _part_ of a C compiler. It's normally invokved by the compilation driver program, 'gcc' or 'cc'. The errors after that stem from that incorrect choice, as cc1 doesn't take the same arguments as cc or gcc and only generates assembler output and not object files.
If I'm reading the configure script correctly, then the ac_ct_CC environment variable is somehow being set to that value, which would be wrong. What's the output of env | grep ^ac and echo $PATH ?
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I run this as root....
<falls over>
Gah! Don't! You should only run stuff as root when you have a specific reason to do so! Didn't you see all those "don't do stuff as root" statements in any of the docs you read when you set this system up? If not, then you need to go read some UNIX/Linux administration books, ASAP.
Philip Guenther