installation problem with binutils-2.10.1.0.4

[H . J . Lu]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 08:10:34PM -0800, mbil_99 Last Name wrote:
> Hi this may not be the appropriate forum for this newbie question, if not
> could someone please guide me to somewhere appropriate.
> 
> Im trying to upgrade my linux 2.2.5-22 to 2.4 and 2.4 documentation said  
> to upgrade a bunch of other software among which is binutils.
> 
> so I got binutils-2.10.1.0.4
> and when I try to ./configure it I get the following error:
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Configuring for a i686-pc-linux-gnu host.
> Created "Makefile" in /usr/home/mbil/kernels/binutils-2.10.1.0.4 using
> "mt-frag"
> collect2: ld returned 33 exit status
> *** The command 'gcc -o conftest -g   conftest.c' failed.
> *** You must set the environment variable CC to a working compiler.
> ---------------------------------------------------
> 

config.log should tell you more about why it failed.

H.J.