Trying to compile Lame 3.97 - SOLVED

[txHarleyMan]

Hello,
I am getting this error when trying to run ./configure

configure:2527: error: C compiler cannot create executables

Here is a piece of the log

configure:2449: $? = 0
configure:2451: gcc -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 --enable-checking=release i486-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)
configure:2454: $? = 0
configure:2456: gcc -V </dev/null >&5
gcc: '-V' option must have argument
configure:2459: $? = 1
configure:2482: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:2485: gcc conftest.c >&5
/usr/bin/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:2488: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h. */
|
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "lame"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "lame"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "3.97"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "lame 3.97"
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "lame-dev@lists.sf.net"
| #define PACKAGE "lame"
| #define VERSION "3.97"
| /* end confdefs.h. */


Any ideas anyone??

[jankushka]

Re: Trying to compile Lame 3.97

have you got build-essential installed?

[txHarleyMan]

Re: Trying to compile Lame 3.97

I do now. Worked fine! Thank you.
Just out of curiosity, what is build-essential?

[jankushka]

Re: Trying to compile Lame 3.97

quoting the package description...good luck:

If you do not plan to build Debian packages, you don't need this
package. Moreover this package is not required for building Debian
packages.

This package contains an informational list of packages which are
considered essential for building Debian packages. This package also
depends on the packages on that list, to make it easy to have the
build-essential packages installed.

If you have this package installed, you only need to install whatever
a package specifies as its build-time dependencies to build the
package. Conversely, if you are determining what your package needs
to build-depend on, you can always leave out the packages this
package depends on.

This package is NOT the definition of what packages are
build-essential; the real definition is in the Debian Policy Manual.
This package contains merely an informational list, which is all
most people need. However, if this package and the manual disagree,
the manual is correct.

basically, though, it's something you need to have installed if you need
to build other stuff on *ubuntu...

it's got the following dependencies:

Depends: libc6-dev | libc-dev, gcc (>= 4:4.1.1), g++ (>= 4:4.1.1), make, dpkg-dev (>= 1.13.5)

cheers