[yosepht]

I am trying to install apcupsd-3-14-3 on Mandriva Linux. I am getting the following response. Your help in resolving this problem is greatly appreciated. Will be glad to
provide any additional info if needed.

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[root@localhost apcupsd-3.14.3]# ./configure
checking for true... /bin/true
checking for false... /bin/false
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
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.

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and here is a portion of 'config.log'

This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

It was created by configure, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.59. Invocation command line was

$ ./configure

## --------- ##
## Platform. ##
## --------- ##

hostname = localhost
uname -m = i686
uname -r = 2.6.22.18-desktop-1mdv
uname -s = Linux
uname -v = #1 SMP Mon Feb 11 13:53:50 EST 2008

/usr/bin/uname -p = unknown
/bin/uname -X = unknown

/bin/arch = i686
/usr/bin/arch -k = unknown
/usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown
hostinfo = unknown
/bin/machine = unknown
/usr/bin/oslevel = unknown
/bin/universe = unknown

PATH: /sbin
PATH: /usr/sbin
PATH: /bin
PATH: /usr/bin
PATH: /usr/X11R6/bin
PATH: /usr/local/bin
PATH: /usr/local/sbin
PATH: /usr/lib/qt3//bin


## ----------- ##
## Core tests. ##
## ----------- ##

configure:1437: checking for true
configure:1455: found /bin/true
configure:1467: result: /bin/true
configure:1482: checking for false
configure:1500: found /bin/false
configure:1512: result: /bin/false
configure:1553: checking build system type
configure:1571: result: i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
configure:1579: checking host system type
configure:1593: result: i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
configure:1649: checking for gcc
configure:1665: found /usr/bin/gcc
configure:1675: result: gcc
configure:1919: checking for C compiler version
configure:1922: gcc --version </dev/null >&5
gcc (GCC) 4.2.2 20071128 (prerelease) (4.2.2-3.1mdv2008.0)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

configure:1925: $? = 0
configure:1927: gcc -v </dev/null >&5
Using built-in specs.
Target: i586-mandriva-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib --with-slibdir=/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-checking=release --enable-languages=c,c++,ada,fortran,objc,obj-c++,java --host=i586-mandriva-linux-gnu --with-cpu=generic --with-system-zlib --enable-threads=posix --enable-shared --enable-long-long --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-java-awt=gtk --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-gcj-1.4.2.0/jre --enable-gtk-cairo --disable-libjava-multilib --enable-ssp --disable-libssp
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.2.2 20071128 (prerelease) (4.2.2-3.1mdv2008.0)
configure:1930: $? = 0
configure:1932: gcc -V </dev/null >&5
gcc: '-V' option must have argument
configure:1935: $? = 1
configure:1958: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:1961: gcc conftest.c >&5
as: error while loading shared libraries: libbfd-2.17.50.0.12.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
configure:1964: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h. */
|
| #define PACKAGE_NAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION ""
| #define PACKAGE_STRING ""
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
| /* end confdefs.h. */
|
| int
| main ()
| {
|
| ;
| return 0;
| }
configure:2003: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

## ---------------- ##
## Cache variables. ##
## ---------------- ##

[daik]

Looks like you need to install binutils. Try that and give it another go.
I base this on the fact that 'as' in your log files can not open "libbfd-2.17.50.0.12.so" and googling that gives me that it should be part of the binutils package.

[yosepht]

Great! that worked. All I had to do was install "Make" to finish the installation.

Thank you very much.