Bug 54841 – x11-misc/fireflies fails to emerge with: checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jason Mansfield 2004-06-22 18:58:51 UTC]

Attempting to emerge fireflies, I get the following:

[snip]
config.status: creating fireflies.spec
config.status: creating config.h
gunzip -c libgfx-1.0.1.tar.gz | tar x
cd libgfx && ./configure && cd src && make
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
make: *** [libgfx/src/libgfx.a] Error 77
[snip]



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge -v fireflies


Actual Results:  
listed in details

Expected Results:  
Emerge fireflies

I've made an alchemical fix by editing the ebuild:

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<               CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS ${mycppflags}" \
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> #             CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS ${mycppflags}" \
> #             || die

and it emerges fine.

[Comment 1 Jason Mansfield 2004-06-22 19:00:54 UTC]

Doh! I realize now I should have posted my C/CPPFLAGS:

CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -finline-functions -finline-limit=200 -fmerge-all-constants -ffast-math -ftracer"

[Comment 2 Markus Nigbur (RETIRED) 2004-07-03 08:04:51 UTC]

you must be kidding.

1. removing all cflags isn't the way to go
2. your cflags are supposed to not work.