configure error: C compiler cannot create executables

linux compiling configure

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You are setting CFLAGS to

-ggdb -0g -g3 -fno-omit-frame-pointer

Out of these, -0g is not valid. You may have meant -g0 (which would disable the debugging enabled by -ggdb). The later -g3 flag enables debugging again.

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Jessica

Updated on September 18, 2022

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Jessica over 1 year

When I type the command

./configure --prefix....

the result goes like this :

checking whether the C compiler works... no

configure: error: in `/root/Downloads/agensgraph': 
configure error: C compiler cannot create executables 
See `config.log' for more details

My config.log is the following:

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

It was created by PostgreSQL configure 9.6.2, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69.  Invocation command line was

  $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/agensgraph --enable-cassert --enable-debug CFLAGS=-ggdb -0g -g3 -fno-omit-frame-pointer

## --------- ##
## Platform. ##
## --------- ##

hostname = cll
uname -m = x86_64
uname -r = 3.10.0-514.el7.x86_64
uname -s = Linux
uname -v = #1 SMP Tue Nov 22 16:42:41 UTC 2016

/usr/bin/uname -p = x86_64
/bin/uname -X     = unknown

/bin/arch              = x86_64
/usr/bin/arch -k       = unknown
/usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown
/usr/bin/hostinfo      = unknown
/bin/machine           = unknown
/usr/bin/oslevel       = unknown
/bin/universe          = unknown

PATH: /usr/local/agensgraph/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/apache-maven-3.5.2/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/jdk1.8.0_121/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/hadoop-2.7.5/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/hadoop-2.7.5/sbin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/spark-2.2.1-bin-hadoop2.7/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/spark-2.2.1-bin-hadoop2.7/sbin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/scala-2.11.6/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/sbt/bin
PATH: /usr/local/agensgraph/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/apache-maven-3.5.2/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/jdk1.8.0_121/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/hadoop-2.7.5/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/hadoop-2.7.5/sbin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/spark-2.2.1-bin-hadoop2.7/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/spark-2.2.1-bin-hadoop2.7/sbin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/scala-2.11.6/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/sbt/bin
PATH: /usr/local/agensgraph/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/apache-maven-3.5.2/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/jdk1.8.0_121/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/hadoop-2.7.5/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/hadoop-2.7.5/sbin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/spark-2.2.1-bin-hadoop2.7/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/spark-2.2.1-bin-hadoop2.7/sbin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/scala-2.11.6/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/sbt/bin
PATH: /usr/local/agensgraph/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/apache-maven-3.5.2/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/jdk1.8.0_121/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/hadoop-2.7.5/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/hadoop-2.7.5/sbin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/spark-2.2.1-bin-hadoop2.7/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/spark-2.2.1-bin-hadoop2.7/sbin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/scala-2.11.6/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/sbt/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/AgensGraph/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/apache-maven-3.5.2/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/jdk1.8.0_121/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/hadoop-2.7.5/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/hadoop-2.7.5/sbin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/spark-2.2.1-bin-hadoop2.7/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/spark-2.2.1-bin-hadoop2.7/sbin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/scala-2.11.6/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/sbt/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/AgensGraph/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/apache-maven-3.5.2/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/jdk1.8.0_121/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/hadoop-2.7.5/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/hadoop-2.7.5/sbin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/spark-2.2.1-bin-hadoop2.7/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/spark-2.2.1-bin-hadoop2.7/sbin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/scala-2.11.6/bin
PATH: /home/jessica/spark/sbt/bin
PATH: /usr/local/bin
PATH: /usr/local/sbin
PATH: /usr/bin
PATH: /usr/sbin
PATH: /bin
PATH: /sbin
PATH: /root/bin
PATH: /usr/bin
PATH: /usr/local/lib


## ----------- ##
## Core tests. ##
## ----------- ##

configure:2769: checking build system type
configure:2783: result: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
configure:2803: checking host system type
configure:2816: result: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
configure:2838: checking which template to use
configure:2908: result: linux
configure:3003: checking whether to build with 64-bit integer date/time support
configure:3032: result: yes
configure:3039: checking whether NLS is wanted
configure:3071: result: no
configure:3079: checking for default port number
configure:3104: result: 5432
configure:3533: checking for block size
configure:3567: result: 8kB
configure:3579: checking for segment size
configure:3608: result: 1GB
configure:3620: checking for WAL block size
configure:3655: result: 8kB
configure:3667: checking for WAL segment size
configure:3702: result: 16MB
configure:3799: checking for gcc
configure:3815: found /usr/bin/gcc
configure:3826: result: gcc
configure:3857: checking for C compiler version
configure:3866: gcc --version >&5
gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-16)
Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

configure:3877: $? = 0
configure:3866: gcc -v >&5
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.5/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-redhat-linux
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-bugurl=http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla --enable-bootstrap --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=release --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-linker-build-id --with-linker-hash-style=gnu --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada,go,lto --enable-plugin --enable-initfini-array --disable-libgcj --with-isl=/builddir/build/BUILD/gcc-4.8.5-20150702/obj-x86_64-redhat-linux/isl-install --with-cloog=/builddir/build/BUILD/gcc-4.8.5-20150702/obj-x86_64-redhat-linux/cloog-install --enable-gnu-indirect-function --with-tune=generic --with-arch_32=x86-64 --build=x86_64-redhat-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-16) (GCC) 
configure:3877: $? = 0
configure:3866: gcc -V >&5
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-V'
gcc: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
configure:3877: $? = 4
configure:3866: gcc -qversion >&5
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-qversion'
gcc: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
configure:3877: $? = 4
configure:3897: checking whether the C compiler works
configure:3919: gcc -ggdb -0g -g3 -fno-omit-frame-pointer   conftest.c  >&5
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-0g'
configure:3923: $? = 1
configure:3961: result: no
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "PostgreSQL"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "postgresql"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "9.6.2"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "PostgreSQL 9.6.2"
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "[email protected]"
| #define PACKAGE_URL ""
| #define PG_MAJORVERSION "9.6"
| #define PG_VERSION "9.6.2"
| #define AG_VERSION "1.2.0"
| #define AG_GIT_REVISION "355d7fc343f65b6a06247d670b8966253c46bf53"
| #define USE_INTEGER_DATETIMES 1
| #define DEF_PGPORT 5432
| #define DEF_PGPORT_STR "5432"
| #define BLCKSZ 8192
| #define RELSEG_SIZE 131072
| #define XLOG_BLCKSZ 8192
| #define XLOG_SEG_SIZE (16 * 1024 * 1024)
| /* end confdefs.h.  */
| 
| int
| main ()
| {
| 
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }
configure:3966: error: in `/root/Downloads/agensgraph':
configure:3968: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details

## ---------------- ##
## Cache variables. ##
## ---------------- ##

ac_cv_build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
ac_cv_env_CC_set=
ac_cv_env_CC_value=
ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_set=set
ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_value='-ggdb -0g -g3 -fno-omit-frame-pointer'
ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_set=
ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_value=
ac_cv_env_CPP_set=
ac_cv_env_CPP_value=
ac_cv_env_DOCBOOKSTYLE_set=
ac_cv_env_DOCBOOKSTYLE_value=
ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_EX_set=
ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_EX_value=
ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_SL_set=
ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_SL_value=
ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_set=
ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_value=
ac_cv_env_LIBS_set=
ac_cv_env_LIBS_value=
ac_cv_env_build_alias_set=
ac_cv_env_build_alias_value=
ac_cv_env_host_alias_set=
ac_cv_env_host_alias_value=
ac_cv_env_target_alias_set=
ac_cv_env_target_alias_value=
ac_cv_host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
ac_cv_prog_ac_ct_CC=gcc

## ----------------- ##
## Output variables. ##
## ----------------- ##

AR=''
AWK=''
BISON=''
BISONFLAGS=''
CC='gcc'
CFLAGS='-ggdb -0g -g3 -fno-omit-frame-pointer'
CFLAGS_SSE42=''
CFLAGS_VECTOR=''
COLLATEINDEX=''
CPP=''
CPPFLAGS=''
DBTOEPUB=''
DEFS=''
DLLTOOL=''
DLLWRAP=''
DOCBOOKSTYLE=''
DTRACE=''
DTRACEFLAGS=''
ECHO_C=''
ECHO_N='-n'
ECHO_T=''
EGREP=''
ELF_SYS=''
EXEEXT=''
FLEX=''
FLEXFLAGS=''
GCC=''
GCOV=''
GENHTML=''
GREP=''
HAVE_IPV6=''
INCLUDES=''
INSTALL_DATA=''
INSTALL_PROGRAM=''
INSTALL_SCRIPT=''
JADE=''
LCOV=''
LD=''
LDAP_LIBS_BE=''
LDAP_LIBS_FE=''
LDFLAGS=''
LDFLAGS_EX=''
LDFLAGS_SL=''
LIBOBJS=''
LIBS=''
LN_S=''
LTLIBOBJS=''
MKDIR_P=''
MSGFMT=''
MSGFMT_FLAGS=''
MSGMERGE=''
NSGMLS=''
OBJEXT=''
OSX=''
PACKAGE_BUGREPORT='[email protected]'
PACKAGE_NAME='PostgreSQL'
PACKAGE_STRING='PostgreSQL 9.6.2'
PACKAGE_TARNAME='postgresql'
PACKAGE_URL=''
PACKAGE_VERSION='9.6.2'
PATH_SEPARATOR=':'
PERL=''
PG_CRC32C_OBJS=''
PG_MAJORVERSION='9.6'
PG_VERSION_NUM=''
PORTNAME='linux'
PROVE=''
PTHREAD_CC=''
PTHREAD_CFLAGS=''
PTHREAD_LIBS=''
PYTHON=''
RANLIB=''
SHELL='/bin/sh'
STRIP=''
STRIP_SHARED_LIB=''
STRIP_STATIC_LIB=''
SUN_STUDIO_CC=''
TAR=''
TAS=''
TCLSH=''
TCL_CONFIG_SH=''
TCL_INCLUDE_SPEC=''
TCL_LIBS=''
TCL_LIB_SPEC=''
TCL_SHARED_BUILD=''
TCL_SHLIB_LD_LIBS=''
UUID_EXTRA_OBJS=''
UUID_LIBS=''
WANTED_LANGUAGES=''
WINDRES=''
XGETTEXT=''
XML2_CONFIG=''
XMLLINT=''
XSLTPROC=''
ZIC=''
ac_ct_CC='gcc'
autodepend=''
ax_pthread_config=''
bindir='${exec_prefix}/bin'
build='x86_64-pc-linux-gnu'
build_alias=''
build_cpu='x86_64'
build_os='linux-gnu'
build_vendor='pc'
configure_args=' '\''--prefix=/usr/local/agensgraph'\'' '\''--enable-cassert'\'' '\''--enable-debug'\'' '\''CFLAGS=-ggdb -0g -g3 -fno-omit-frame-pointer'\'''
datadir='${datarootdir}'
datarootdir='${prefix}/share'
default_port='5432'
docdir='${datarootdir}/doc/${PACKAGE_TARNAME}'
dvidir='${docdir}'
enable_coverage='no'
enable_debug='yes'
enable_dtrace='no'
enable_nls='no'
enable_rpath='yes'
enable_tap_tests='no'
enable_thread_safety=''
exec_prefix='NONE'
have_docbook=''
have_win32_dbghelp=''
host='x86_64-pc-linux-gnu'
host_alias=''
host_cpu='x86_64'
host_os='linux-gnu'
host_vendor='pc'
htmldir='${docdir}'
includedir='${prefix}/include'
infodir='${datarootdir}/info'
install_bin=''
krb_srvtab=''
ld_R_works=''
libdir='${exec_prefix}/lib'
libexecdir='${exec_prefix}/libexec'
localedir='${datarootdir}/locale'
localstatedir='${prefix}/var'
mandir='${datarootdir}/man'
oldincludedir='/usr/include'
pdfdir='${docdir}'
perl_archlibexp=''
perl_embed_ldflags=''
perl_privlibexp=''
perl_useshrplib=''
prefix='/usr/local/agensgraph'
program_transform_name='s,x,x,'
psdir='${docdir}'
python_additional_libs=''
python_includespec=''
python_libdir=''
python_libspec=''
python_majorversion=''
python_version=''
sbindir='${exec_prefix}/sbin'
sharedstatedir='${prefix}/com'
sysconfdir='${prefix}/etc'
target_alias=''
vpath_build=''
with_gnu_ld=''
with_libxml=''
with_libxslt=''
with_openssl=''
with_perl=''
with_python=''
with_selinux=''
with_system_tzdata=''
with_systemd=''
with_tcl=''
with_uuid=''
with_zlib=''

## ----------- ##
## confdefs.h. ##
## ----------- ##

/* confdefs.h */
#define PACKAGE_NAME "PostgreSQL"
#define PACKAGE_TARNAME "postgresql"
#define PACKAGE_VERSION "9.6.2"
#define PACKAGE_STRING "PostgreSQL 9.6.2"
#define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "[email protected]"
#define PACKAGE_URL ""
#define PG_MAJORVERSION "9.6"
#define PG_VERSION "9.6.2"
#define AG_VERSION "1.2.0"
#define AG_GIT_REVISION "355d7fc343f65b6a06247d670b8966253c46bf53"
#define USE_INTEGER_DATETIMES 1
#define DEF_PGPORT 5432
#define DEF_PGPORT_STR "5432"
#define BLCKSZ 8192
#define RELSEG_SIZE 131072
#define XLOG_BLCKSZ 8192
#define XLOG_SEG_SIZE (16 * 1024 * 1024)

configure: exit 77

Kusalananda about 6 years

Do post the config.log contents. I have a hunch that you may not actually have a C compiler installed.
Jessica about 6 years

Is the config.log clear?
Thomas about 6 years

Is -0g a typo? In the logs there is gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-0g' and this option seems to have passed during configure.
Jessica about 6 years

Thank you for your formatting of the config.log and helping me solve my question, so appreciated it. Would you mind teaching me how did formatting the contents of the config.log, thanks a lot.
Kusalananda about 6 years

@Jessica Preformatted text should be indented by 4 spaces. Selecting a bit of text and clicking {} in the formatting tools menu does this automatically.