[asterisk-users] C compiler cannot create executables when building zaptel

[Michiel van Baak]

On 06:50, Thu 06 Mar 08, CSB wrote:
> When attempting to build zaptel I get the following error:
> configure:2184: error: C compiler cannot create executables

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> 
> I believe I have all the necessary packages installed.
> 
> Having done some research, one link suggests using strace and in that case I
> don't get the error:
> strace -f -o /tmp/trace -e trace=process ./configure
> ...
> configure: *** Zaptel build successfully configured ***
> 
> uname -a
> Linux beta.domain.com 2.6.20-1.2320.fc5 #1 Tue Jun 12 18:50:38 EDT 2007 i686
> i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> Could anyone suggest why this is the case?

I had the same error on a clean ubuntu install.
What fixed it, is installing the build-essential package.
I dont know if fedora has the same package, but should be
something like this.

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