Afternoon All, I'm getting the error message "C compiler cannot create executables" when trying to compile something. Don't know if anyone remembers my recent muddle with installing things from the testing in debian in a wild frenzy, ahem, but it all seems to be sort of not working. I tried installing task-c-dev, but that depends on libc-dev, so I tried installing libc6-dev. Again, unhappy, suggested unmet dependency was libc6 (= 2.1.3-19) but 2.2.4-7 is to be installed. "Broken packages" it said. Sniff. I broke my box. Sorry all. I'll bring chocolate biscuits on Sunday, I promise. Jen.
Jen, have you got the ELF Lib stuff installed (search in dselect for ELF) ? you should need this for ELF binaries (correct me if I'm wrong please anyone- dunno how up-to-date this understanding is). I had similar problems when I had the update cd (linux expo) registered with dpkg (apt-cdrom) when doing the normal install and it kinda screwed me up. I Removed (comment out) any references to it from sources.list, run dselect and uninstalled the offending bad version libs, then reinstalled from the distro cds only. Then I uncommented the previously commented out line, run dselect to see the upgradeable goodies available for upgrade without breaking deps. (I know the debian gurus around here are probably spitting at the moment - sorry guys) I and I'm sure others would be glad to give you a hand on sunday. Cheers Earl -----Original Message----- From: main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk [mailto:main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com Sent: 22 January 2002 15:09 To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: [Alug] c compiler prob Afternoon All, I'm getting the error message "C compiler cannot create executables" when trying to compile something. Don't know if anyone remembers my recent muddle with installing things from the testing in debian in a wild frenzy, ahem, but it all seems to be sort of not working. I tried installing task-c-dev, but that depends on libc-dev, so I tried installing libc6-dev. Again, unhappy, suggested unmet dependency was libc6 (= 2.1.3-19) but 2.2.4-7 is to be installed. "Broken packages" it said. Sniff. I broke my box. Sorry all. I'll bring chocolate biscuits on Sunday, I promise. Jen. _______________________________________________ main@lists.alug.org.uk http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/ http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above!
Jenny:
I'm getting the error message "C compiler cannot create executables" when trying to compile something.
Is that because you don't have part of the compiler toolchain installed (bin86 and friends)?
Don't know if anyone remembers my recent muddle with installing things from the testing in debian in a wild frenzy, ahem, but it all seems to be sort of not working. I tried installing task-c-dev, but that depends on libc-dev, so I tried installing libc6-dev. Again, unhappy, suggested unmet dependency was libc6 (= 2.1.3-19) but 2.2.4-7 is to be installed. "Broken packages" it said.
My best guess would be to try "apt-get --reinstall install libc6" to see if it resolves it, or try getting the libc6 package from stable, installing it and removing all the extra stuff that breaks. Your other option is to move /etc/apt/sources.list to using testing, then "apt-get dist-upgrade". I'm not sure which will break less stuff for you, though.
Sniff. I broke my box.
We have the technology. We can rebuild you.
Sorry all. I'll bring chocolate biscuits on Sunday, I promise.
Yuck, chocolate. -- MJR
Afternoon All, I'm getting the error message "C compiler cannot create executables" when trying to compile something. Don't know if anyone remembers my recent muddle with installing things from the testing in debian in a wild frenzy, ahem, but it all seems to be sort of not working. I tried installing task-c-dev, but that depends on libc-dev, so I tried installing libc6-dev. Again, unhappy, suggested unmet dependency was libc6 (= 2.1.3-19) but 2.2.4-7 is to be installed. "Broken packages" it said.
means you don't have the c++ portions of gcc installed. Had it on redhat the other week. Google came to the rescue Darren
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