ncurses 5.3 install help

[MorphiusFaydal]

In preparation for my installation of LinuxFromScratch, I discovered to my chagrin that my minimal Slackware 9 installation was missing the apparently much needed ncurses development libraries. It didnt take me long to find them, and discover that I had already downloaded then (they are needed for installation onto LFS).

And so, back to the wonderful land of Linux (I had to use WinXP to find the ncurses information).

I got back to Slack, untarred my libraries, read the INSTALL and README files, and proceded with my installation of ncurses-5.3.

Unfortunatly, when I run the ./configure command, I get an error, faithfully typed out for you here:

root@darkstar:/ncurses-5.3# ./configure --prefix=/usr
Configuring NCURSES 5.3 ABI 5 (Tue Jul 22 16:01:05 CDT 2003)
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
Configuring for linux-gnulibc1
checking for prefix... /usr
checking for gcc... gcc -s
checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
root@darkstar:/ncurses-5.3#

If it helps at all the output for gcc -version reveals that I am apparently using GCC version 3.2.2.

Any help would be appreciated.

Yours in Linux,
Chris

[mdwatts]

See if any of these JL forum search results for 'cannot create executables' (http://justlinux.com/forum/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=684121&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending) pertains to your particular problem.

It could be a config setting you need to change.