[sane-devel] install problems on Mandrake 8.0 system

[Jim George]

Folks,

    I've tried to compile sane-1.0.7 on a Mandrake 8.0 system.  The problem
I get is listed below...can you advise?

Jim

# ./configure --with-gphoto2
creating cache ./config.cache
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot
creat
e executables.

# more config.log

This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

configure:627: checking for gcc
configure:740: checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works
configure:756: gcc -o conftest    conftest.c  1>&5
as: error while loading shared libraries: libbfd-2.11.90.0.8.so: cannot open
sha
red object file: No such file or directory
configure: failed program was:

#line 751 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"

main(){return(0);}