>>>> "Valdis" == Valdis Kletnieks
<Valdis.Kletnieks(a)vt.edu> writes:
Valdis> On Sat, 09 Nov 2002 22:35:07 MST, Lynn David Newton
Valdis> <lynn.newton(a)cox.net> said:
> *** PANIC *** The C compiler can no longer build working
executables.
This is exactly correct. The C compiler (defined as configure's
internal CC macro) has succeeded in building executables, but for some
reason it is now failing.
> *** PANIC *** Please examine the tail of config.log for runtime
errors.
> *** PANIC *** The most likely reason for this problem is that configure
> *** PANIC *** links with shared libraries, but those libraries cannot be
> *** PANIC *** found at run time.
Valdis> The panic message is, quite frankly, probably full of
Valdis> bovine fertilizer.
Yes, but explaining what is truly happening is actually quite hard.
I've never seen any of the things you claim are "common" (and I have
seen the panic message on a number of occasions, both personally and
on xemacs-beta).
Valdis> (XEmacs crew - can we get that panic message cleaned up to
Valdis> match reality?)
If you can say what reality is. The current message actually isn't
that far from my experience, although it's definitely misleading.
How about this?
------------------------------------------------------------------------
*** PANIC *** configure doesn't know how to build working executables!
*** This is most commonly due to an unforeseen environment, causing
*** configure to incorrectly compute the sequence of libraries to link.
*** Please examine the tail of config.log for runtime errors.
*** Pay special attention to the -l flags, and perhaps -I and -L.
*** Often adding or removing explicit options in the configure
*** invocation can work around this kind of problem. If so, please
*** report it as a bug to xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org.
*** Other possible causes are inability to write to the file system
*** (bogus permissions or disk full) or a misconfiguration of the dynamic
*** linker (check /etc/ld.conf and rerun ldconfig if necessary).
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