Help installing programs

[Jucat]

Hi, i'm a very newbie to linux and i'm trying to install a program but i'm getting this error when i run the './configure' command

checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for -p flag to install... yes
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no
checking for style of include used by make... none
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

can anyone pls help.

thanx

[lakerdonald]

Try reinstalling GCC:

apt-get install gcc

[Jucat]

thanx for that, but this is the msg that i got back

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
gcc is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 57 not upgraded.

any thoughts ?

[lakerdonald]

Can you post the relevant portion of config.log?

[Jucat]

can u tell me where to find it and how to access it ?
thanx

[brother_mick]

config.log will be in the directory where you run ./configure. You can display this by typing

less config.log

or if you don`t have less

more config.log