garaio/xapian-ruby — Issue #1: compiling error on ubuntu 11.10 
Author: kuadrosx
Created: 2011-10-21 23:28:09+00:00
State: open

I'm getting the following error on ubuntu 11.10

./configure --prefix=/home/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-head/gems/xapian-ruby-1.2.7 --exec-prefix=/home/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-head/gems/xapian-ruby-1.2.7
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking how to print strings... printf
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/home/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-head/gems/xapian-ruby-1.2.7/xapian-core-1.2.7':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details
rake aborted!