Bitbake error: C compiler cannot create executables

[Koen Kooi]

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Greg schreef:
> On Sunday 28 January 2007 17:45, Jonathon Suggs wrote:
>> I am getting the following error when I try to build packages (tried
>> several, same result).
>>
>> configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
>>
>> I can give more details, but I've googled this quite a bit and can't
>> seem to track down the underlying problem.  FYI, I can compile programs
>> with gcc, so that isn't the issue.  I'm guessing the configure script
>> must be looking in the wrong place for my compiler.
>>
>> Any thoughts/suggestions?  Thanks in advance!
> 
> Hi Jonathon,
> 
> I am using a fairly recently installed kubuntu distro.  As such, I found that 
> many basic packages weren't installed when I first tried OE, but I was able 
> to figure out what packages were missing by looking at the detailed error 
> information.  In your case, it is probably in the config.log file.  If you 
> can't see anything, send it over and I'll see if I can make sense of it.
> 
> FYI: Some of my issues were missing/incorrectly configured cpp, missing 
> headers, and wrong gcc version (I've been playing with a few different 
> targets).  Fortunately for me, ubuntu comes with easy package managements 
> tools so it was a quick process to find and install the right stuff.

Add this line to APT sources (/etc/apt/sources.list) :

deb http://www.openembedded.org/dl/ packages/

then do "apt-get update; apt-get install openembedded-essential" as root.

That should pull in all required software.

regards,

Koen
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