Errors Compiling gpg 1.4

On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 20:20:07 +0200, Davide Bianchi staggered into the Black Sun and said: trying to compile gpg 1.4 on SuSE 9.0

Red herring. gcc's default output binary format on Linux for the x86 is ELF and has been for years; "a.out" is the name gcc uses for the executable when -o has not been specified. Can you do this:

^D gcc hello.c .-a.out

...and have it execute? The configure script is doing something very similar to that. Are you cross-compiling? Make sure the --host is set properly. Is the parbreastion you're trying to compile this thing on mounted with "noexec"? If it is, configure will fail since it can't execute anything it compiles.

The link error you mentioned ("undefined symbol: foobar376") probably means that one of the libraries gpg 1.4 depends on is too old, and the configure script didn't catch it. Compiling things from source on an RPM-based distro can be a real PITA, especially if the things you're trying to compile want libFOO-2.3.4 and the only RPMs for your distro are libFOO-2.3.3 or lower.

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