Installation

[Ian Lynagh]

Hi Cory,

On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 09:15:25PM -0600, fujimotc at southwestern.edu wrote:
> I am new to linux and I am trying to install ghc.  I am running into an
> error when running the configure file.  
> 
> gcc version 4.1.2 20060928 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-13ubuntu5)
> 
> cory at cory-laptop:~/Desktop/ghc-6.6$ ./configure
[...]
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler
> cannot create executables
> See `config.log' for more details.

Do you have libc6-dev installed? If ubuntu (which I assume you are
using?) has a build-essential package then I'd recommend installing
that too.


Thanks
Ian