GCC cannot create executables

[netstrider]

I installed Debian after having finished with LFS, it works perfectly and I have everything I want/need, however I'd like to upgrade my IRC client (irssi) to 0.8.11 from 0.8.10 and that's not in the repositories. The problem is that the first time I tried configuring it I didn't have GCC, so I got that from the repositories then I tried again. Next error was Glib. So I installed glib from the repositories too and it still couldn't find it. Usually what I do then is compile the same version as what is in the repositories and that solves the problem, however this time around it didn't.

Now today when I tried again, GCC can't even start to configure anything. It says "Cannot create executables". This is irrespective of what I try to configure/compile/install. I've had this problem before then I just compile GCC itself (for some reason it could do that). Again, not this time around. So I tried re-installing it from the repositories, to no luck.

What can I do now to fix this...life is useless without a compiler...

EDIT: It says the following when trying to compile:

uholtz@sysinit:~/Apps/irssi-0.8.11$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name...
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
uholtz@sysinit:~/Apps/irssi-0.8.11$

This is the config.log

PS: I'm sorry if there is a post similar to this, I have seen one like this recently if I'm not mistaken and did do a search on it but it returned 0 results.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[devils casper]

did you install glibc?

[netstrider]

Yeah the C libraries are installed. I don't know what's wrong ??

[netstrider]

SOLVED: I installed libtool, flex, bison and gdb. Now the compiler goes further. I still don't understand why it doesn't see glib though even though it's installed.

EDIT: I got glib working and after trial and error, irssi --version outputs irssi 0.8.11

Thanks