[sane-devel] install problems on Mandrake 8.0 system

Mon Apr 22 17:32:24 BST 2002

Hi,

On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 10:26:01PM +0100, Jim George wrote:
>     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?
[...]
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... no
> configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables.

Something is wrong with your installation of gcc.

> configure:756: gcc -o conftest    conftest.c  1>&5
> as: error while loading shared libraries: libbfd-2.11.90.0.8.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Looks like the assembler is linked against libbfd but libbfd is not
installed. Check you gcc installation.

Bye,
  Henning