Re: [gentoo-user] Please help with `C compiler cannot create executables'

[Hung Dang]

There are typos/errors in the configure script. From your error log I can
see that -V and -qversion are passed into gcc instead of -v and  --version.

Hung

On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 1:40 PM Akater <nuclearspace@×××××.com> wrote:

> This came unexpectedly. An excerpt from compile.log is posted
> below. (I'll post more if necessary of course.) I'm not very experienced
> with C compilers in general and gcc in particular so I hope for some
> directions on what the cause of the issue might be. I tried removing
> CFLAGS settings from make.conf, to no effect.
> (CFLAGS is `-march=native -O2 -pipe')
>
> I upgraded GCC recently; world, kernel rebuilt successfully and gcc had
> been working just fine for some time since then.
>
> I did not do anything particularly weird with the system that could
> cause this. However,
> (1) I do use a somewhat old profile:
> hardened/linux/amd64 (stable).
> (2) I recently had a build conflict with
> util-linux and rfkill: the latter had been included in the former but I
> was not aware of that at the time and updated some packages (don't
> remember which ones) while masking the corresponding util-linux version
> and newer versions. Still, it was a normal portage update and no
> warnings were issued.
> (3) The kernel sources used are non-standard.
>
> A relevant bit from compile.log (the package is sys-apps/file):
>
> > gcc version 7.3.0 (Gentoo Hardened 7.3.0-r3 p1.4)
> > configure:3711: $? = 0
> > configure:3700: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -V >&5
> > x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-V'
> > x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: fatal error: no input files
> > compilation terminated.
> > configure:3711: $? = 1
> > configure:3700: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -qversion >&5
> > x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: error: unrecognized command line option
> '-qversion'; did you mean '--version'?
> > x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: fatal error: no input files
> > compilation terminated.
> > configure:3711: $? = 1
> > configure:3731: checking whether the C compiler works
> > configure:3753: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -march=native -O2 -pipe  -Wl,-O1
> -Wl,--as-needed conftest.c  >&5
> > cc1: fatal error: /usr/local/include/stdc-predef.h: Permission denied
> > compilation terminated.
> > configure:3757: $? = 1
> > configure:3795: result: no
> > configure: failed program was:
> > | /* confdefs.h */
> > | #define PACKAGE_NAME "file"
> > | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "file"
> > | #define PACKAGE_VERSION "5.33"
> > | #define PACKAGE_STRING "file 5.33"
> > | #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "christos@××××××.com"
> > | #define PACKAGE_URL ""
> > | #define PACKAGE "file"
> > | #define VERSION "5.33"
> > | #define BUILTIN_ELF 1
> > | #define ELFCORE 1
> > | /* end confdefs.h.  */
> > |
> > | int
> > | main ()
> > | {
> > |
> > |   ;
> > |   return 0;
> > | }
> > configure:3800: error: in
> `/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/file-5.33-r4/work/file-5.33-abi_x86_64.amd64':
> > configure:3802: error: C compiler cannot create executables
>
> Note:
>
> > ~ $ sudo ls -la /usr/local/include
> > total 12
> > drwxr-x--- 3 root root 4096 Jul 24 02:12 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Jul 24 02:12 ..
> > drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 Jul 24 02:12 ykpers-1
>
> Thank you.
>