On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 13:28 -0400, Mauriat M wrote: > - Try compiling as non-root (only the 'make install' requires root > access) I cannot even run ./configure, neither as root, nor as user. Result is 'Permission denied'. Both root/user can run it as: sh ./configure In both the cases the output is identical. I am quoting the whole thing: << sh ./configure checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk 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... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs. If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'. See `config.log' for more details. >> The config.log also giving something like this: << /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 >> This first line, /usr/bin/uname is actually /bin/uname Is this the source of all trouble? Some non-standard file placing in F7, or something in gcc has got corrupted? Thank you for trying to help. -- das
