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Date:	Tue, 21 Aug 2001 21:01:35 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: C compiler cannot create executables
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In-Reply-To:	<NEBBLJLHGNFOIKMBDNANGEGECOAA.dwjohnson@dwjohnson.com>; from dwjohnson@dwjohnson.com on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:05:50PM -0600

On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:05:50PM -0600, David Johnson wrote:
>I am trying to install PostgreSQL and when I run ./configure I get the
>error:
>*******************************************
>$ ./configure
>loading cache ./config.cache
>checking host system type... i686-pc-cygwin
>checking which template to use... win
>checking whether to build with locale support... no
>checking whether to build with recode support... no
>checking whether to build with multibyte character support... no
>checking whether to build with Unicode conversion support... no
>checking for default port number... 5432
>checking for default soft limit on number of connections... 32
>checking for gcc... gcc
>checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... no
>configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot
>cre
>e executables.
>*******************************************
>
>When I look at config.log, I see:
>
>*******************************************
>This file contains any messages produced by compilers while^M
>running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.^M
>^M
>configure:629: checking host system type^M
>configure:655: checking which template to use^M
>configure:818: checking whether to build with locale support^M
>configure:847: checking whether to build with recode support^M
>configure:877: checking whether to build with multibyte character support^M
>configure:929: checking whether to build with Unicode conversion support^M
>configure:960: checking for default port number^M
>configure:994: checking for default soft limit on number of connections^M
>configure:1118: checking for gcc^M
>configure:1231: checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works^M
>configure:1247: gcc -o conftest    conftest.c  1>&5^M
>/usr/bin/ld: unrecognized option `--dll-search-prefix=cyg'^M
>/usr/bin/ld: use the --help option for usage information^M
>collect2: ld returned 1 exit status^M
>configure: failed program was:^M
>
>#line 1242 "configure"
>#include "confdefs.h"
>
>main(){return(0);}
>~
>*******************************************
>
>
>Can anyone provide any solutions?

You're using a version of ld which does not recognize this option.

You probably have an old version of binutils.

cgf

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