error: config systemtap-060401 under fedora5 !

[William Cohen]

Kevin Jia wrote:
> # ./configure --with-elfutils=/usr/local/bin
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking for gawk... gawk
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
> checking whether ln -s works... yes
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error:
> C compiler cannot create executables
> 
> why?


This sound suspiciously like a problem that I ran across with a NCSU 
student when trying to setup systemtap on his machine last week. The 
executables in /usr/local/bin (ld etc.) do not work with the default gcc 
compiler.  I would suggest removing those newly installed elfutils in 
/usr/local/bin. And using the configure method that Eugene Teo mentioned:

Actually, all you have to do is to download the latest elfutils
snapshot, patch it with elfutils-portability patch, and then point
--with-elfutils to the elfutils-NNNN directory.

-Will