problem with the configure util (fwd)

[Torsten Moeller]

It turned out, that our gcc is broken. When I tried it with SGI's cc and
CC compilers everything worked just fine and great! Thanks for the
replies!

					Torsten.

On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 00:34:10 -0800 (PST),
  in message "problem with the configure util" <Pine.SOL.4.10.10001110028400.13060-100000 at gita.cs.sfu.ca>,
  Torsten Moeller <torsten at cs.sfu.ca> wrote:
torsten> I am trying to install vtk on an SGI Octane with IRIX 6.5 and get the
torsten> following error:
torsten> 
torsten> minstrel 267 (.../VTK/vtk): env CXX=/usr/freeware/bin/g++ CC=/usr/freeware/bin/gcc ./configure
torsten> loading cache ./config.cache
torsten> checking for gcc... /usr/freeware/bin/gcc
torsten> checking whether the C compiler (/usr/freeware/bin/gcc  ) works... no
torsten> configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables.
torsten> minstrel 268 (.../VTK/vtk): 
torsten> 
torsten> I have no clue, what the error messages means or how to fix it - would
torsten> anybody have any insight to this?? Thanks!
torsten> 
torsten> 					Torsten.



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