I am using SuSE 9.1. I am trying to install xine and I always get this message. I have gcc version 3.3.3 installed. I always get this:
checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

I tried to paste in the config.log, but it was too big.

"checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details."

Without the details I can only guess what the problem is. My first guess is that this is a permissions problem. Did you run the compile as user?

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I was logged in as a user, however I used the "su" command in the terminal. This is from the config.log, it it helps:

configure:2489: $? = 0
configure:2491: gcc -v </dev/null >&5
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.3.3/specs
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --with-slibdir=/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,java,objc --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-c99 --enable-nls --enable-long-long --enable-multilib --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld --with-system-zlib --without-x i386-redhat-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3.3
configure:2494: $? = 0
configure:2496: gcc -V </dev/null >&5
gcc: `-V' option must have argument
configure:2499: $? = 1
configure:2523: checking for C compiler default output
configure:2526: gcc conftest.c >&5
/usr/bin/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:2529: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| #line 2502 "configure"
| /* confdefs.h. */
|
| #define PACKAGE_NAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION ""
| #define PACKAGE_STRING ""
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
| #define XINE_MAJOR 1
| #define XINE_MINOR 0
| #define XINE_SUB 0
| #define PACKAGE "xine-lib"
| #define VERSION "1-rc4a"
| /* end confdefs.h. */
|
| int
| main ()
| {
|
| ;
| return 0;
| }
configure:2568: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

"/usr/bin/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory"

I have the beginning of an explanation. The linker cannot find crt1.o. This is the output of the compile of crt1. My explanation simply moves the question to why didn't gcc compile crt1 to crt1.o. Do you know what crt1 is?

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I have no idea what crt1 is, or what it is for.

"I have no idea what crt1 is, or what it is for."

Neither do I. Does xine depend on a separate crt driver?

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I have no idea what a crt driver is, or what it is used for, and have no idea if it uses a different crt driver or not. Sorry, I am a newby with almost no knowledge about this stuff.

Looks like a permisions problem. One thing that gets overlooked is whether the partition containing the source is mounted with exec in fstab.

Here is a guess as to what the problem is. I think that xine depends on a kernel driver called crt1.o. crt1.o should be somewhere in the /lib/modules tree. You can check to see if it is with:
find /lib -iname "*crt*"

With kernel 2.6 the endings of the names of the drivers has been switched from .o to .ko. So now that you are on SuSE 9.1 with kernel 2.6.4 xine should be looking for crt1.ko which may or may not be available in /lib/modules. So I suspect that you need to find a version of xine that works on kernel 2.6.4 and download that.

Is the version of xine that you are trying to install one that you previously installed on kernel 2.4.x?

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