configure result "checking whether the C compiler works... no"

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Aug 18, 2011, at 6:26 PM, Joshua Root wrote:

> On 2011-8-19 11:11 , Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
>> On Aug 18, 2011, at 5:46 PM, Clemens Lang wrote:
>> 
>>> Hey,
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 03:15:17PM -0700, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
>>>> configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
>>>> See `config.log' for more details
>>> 
>>> Did you have a look? What does it say? What's the source code it tries
>>> to compile, and what command does it use to do so?
>> 
>> I was trying to compile MacPorts trunk/base. Due to hosted services I had to back out the Lion upgrade to get back online.
> 
> I think Clemens realised that you were building base; he's asking what
> the config.log says about that specific check. But I guess you might not
> have it any more.

Right, I don't have the logs, unless they survived a "Restore from time machine". I was remote so I'm not exactly sure what took place.

FWIW, it is nice to know that one can restore from a time machine backup :)


Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)