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On 08/04/2010 13:11, david sastre wrote:

> Yesterday (still under1.7.3) I had a "compiler not found" and a
> "compiler cannot create executables" errors while trying to build some
> standard apps, i.e. nginx.

> $ ./configure
> checking for OS
>  + CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.7.4(0.225/5/3) i686
> checking for C compiler ... not found
> ./configure: error: C compiler gcc is not found

  Well, given that ...

> $ gcc --version
> gcc (GCC) 4.3.4 20090804 (release) 1

... gcc works at the command-line for you, there's probably some sort of bug
in nginx configure script.  Take a look through the config.log it left and see
if it shows what went wrong.

    cheers,
      DaveK



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