Re: "C compiler cannot create executables" error - 4.0.4pl1 on SolarIS

on 4/24/01 12:20 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf at rasmus@php.net wrote: >> I might mention that the compiler does not fail immediately, but rather >> after several minutes. I have also tried compiling in a scratch partition >> which I know has lots and lots of disk space and I still get the same error. >> I do not find a debug.log file in either the ../php or /var directories. > > Check your config.log file Ah yes, of course! Okay, here's what it contains: This file contains any messages produced by compilers while running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake. configure:1299: checking for a BSD compatible install configure:1352: checking whether build environment is sane configure:1409: checking whether make sets ${MAKE} configure:1448: checking for working aclocal configure:1461: checking for working autoconf configure:1474: checking for working automake configure:1487: checking for working autoheader configure:1500: checking for working makeinfo configure:1530: checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makef iles configure:1559: checking host system type configure:1587: checking for gawk configure:1621: checking for bison configure:1655: checking bison version configure:1668: checking for gcc configure:1781: checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works configure:1797: gcc -o conftest conftest.c 1>&5 cpp: fork: Interrupted system call configure: failed program was: #line 1792 "configure" #include "confdefs.h" main(){return(0);} HERE IS THE DIRECTORY LISTING FOR confdefs.h: -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 1 Apr 24 11:19 confdefs.h WHICH I NOTE CONTAINS ONE LINE, ONE {BLANK} CHARACTER I might note that I used Solaris tar to unpack the archive - could that be a problem? Other suggestions? thanks again, Christian > > -Rasmus >