"C compiler cannot create executables" !??!

[zerwalter]

I just found the solution to my above problem. I had qt in my USE flags, which is reliant on X11 (which I don't have installed -- console ftw.) I just changed it to -qt, and it compiled. Good luck with php

[tagger]

Another one to add to the queue:

I followed the make.conf.example advice and, for my new dual G5 (ppc64, stage-2 install), set CFLAGS:

[binary_runner]

[Gavinator]

I tried most of the methods and for some reason after i rebooted and logged in as root instead of using SU
it worked.

[Ibn al-Hazardous]

I had this same error msg, but apparently another error. Since this was the thread I came across when searching, I thought I'd post the fix I found (by coinsidence) on bugzilla (https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86123):

[pounard]

I had the error too; in fact it was binutils links in /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin that were pointing to /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/binutils-bin/2.16 ; or in facts real binaries were in /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/binutils-bin/2.16.1

So just do:

[RaZoR1394]

pounard Yes, after updating binutils 2.16.1 I got the same problem. Thanks for the solution .

[pounard]

i did this but i think binutils-config can do this on is own too..
i didnt tested, if anyone does; dont hesitate to answer :}
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[exohuman]

Ran into this problem too! Thanks for the solution!

[centic]

For fixing this cleanly, you should do

[pounard]

That is I was thinking of; thanks for confirmation
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[a2gentoo]

I had to read 4 pages of stuff that didnt work until you came around

That was clean, easy and best of all.... IT WORKED!!

Thx.
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[Dr_Smack]

I can verify that after installing binutils-2.16.1, my binutils profile was not updated to point to 2.16.1. It remained pointing to 2.16. Simply using binutils-config to change it and running source /etc/profile fixed everything as mentioned above.

[mrhenrik]

Finally!
I became a member of this Forum about 3 minutes ago just to say THANK YOU!
after browsing around all day i finally found the binutils error.
I had been trying to downgrade binutils - but "C compiler cannot create ..." wouldn't let me
and i could upgrade/downgrade gcc - because "as" couldn't be found...
Anyway thanks!

[lixer]

[yamakawa]

i did

[Lamp5]

I'm the new guy. Thought I'd say hi and throw in .02 about this:

Do we agree that gcc upgrading is the trickiest quirk in the whole gentoo universe? I count about 4 threads devoted to it, some long ... mine was fixed by the short one
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-294109.html

Does someone think that these things
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-27486-highlight-binutils.html
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-278673.html

might be incorporated into a single sticky topic: try this first, then this,

[thirsk]

I had things broken another way so that my C compiler wouldn't make executables.

I ran binutils-config (which I think is new on my system) and it wasn't set to anything. /usr/bin/ld didn't exist. So I did "binutils-config 1" and then everything was just fine and /usr/bin/ld existed again.

My etc-update wants to update 100 or so files so maybe it's my fault. Now, if emerging binutils-config had some super important warning notice after it completed merging (and many packages do), I can't take responsibility for that. Portage should compile these and keep them in a log or something.

[Darknight]

It happened to me today. I had changed "mcpu=pentium4" to "mtune=pentium4" in make.conf. When I changed back it worked ok... dohhhh

[Gentree]

[antipod]

[seifn06]

Anyone here encountered the "C++ compiler cannot create executables" error while doing a fresh install of Hardened Gentoo (i.e. SELinux) lately? If so, how did you get solve the problem?

I'm in such a situation. I get the "C++ compiler cannot create executables" when I try to bootstrap the system (i.e. run scripts/bootstrap.sh). I've checked and rechecked my make.conf file, tried different options and even tried commenting out the CFLAGs and other variables in make.conf altogether but the bootstrap keeps failing while trying to compile Python early on in the script. I've used gcc-config as directed in the threads above to verify that the compiler is correctly chosen/referenced too. I would have used the binutils suggestion but I can't compile/emerge it since ncurses is among its dependencies. ncurses in turn complains and errors out during emerge/compilation because it can't find a C++ compiler and cannot create executables...

I posted https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-361737.html yesterday about the problem but haven't gotten a reply yet...

[WetSpot]

Or, as was my case, I simply borked my /etc/make.conf by not using the -w option with nano while editng the USE flags.

Thus $CHOST was unavailable when required
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[Gustav]

Hello!

I've the problem that "configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create executables.".
When try using gcc-confiig says that command not found. I'm a beginer on this so can I fix it step by step?
I've the Ubuntu dstribution

This is what I get:

[dkaste]

when i try and emerge gaim it bombs out when emergeing gtk+.
gives me c complier cannot create executables. I've tried the things listed in this topic and nothing seems to work for me.
I have a Amd64 Athlon xp 3500 with gentoo and a 64 bit kernel.