[EXTERNAL] Re: [odb-users] C compiler cannot create executables

[Hess, Michael M]

Boris, in regards to your question below, I included '/opt/odb-2.3.0-x86_64-linux-gnu/lib/odb/x86_64-linux-gnu/bin' in my $PATH since our original Ubuntu environment did not have gcc and g++ installed. As such, I updated my $PATH, installed both gcc and g++, and now the 'configure', 'make' and 'make install' work well.

Thank you very much for your prompt response, and have a great day!

-----Original Message-----
From: Boris Kolpackov [mailto:boris at codesynthesis.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 12:16 AM
To: Hess, Michael M
Cc: odb-users at codesynthesis.com
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [odb-users] C compiler cannot create executables

Hi Michael,

Hess, Michael M <mmhess at sandia.gov> writes:

> As can be seen in the attached config.log file, configure attempts to 
> compile conftest.c, but fails.

Thanks for providing the log. It appears that configure picks up the internal version of GCC that is used by ODB:

/opt/odb-2.3.0-x86_64-linux-gnu/lib/odb/x86_64-linux-gnu/bin/gcc

And it does this because you have added its directory to your PATH:

PATH: /opt/odb-2.3.0-x86_64-linux-gnu/lib/odb/x86_64-linux-gnu/bin

This should not be necessary and is generally a bad idea since it "hides" your system GCC. Any reason why you went to the trouble of finding and adding this directory to PATH?

Boris