Other compiling tips

If you don't have a properly setup system for compiling GNU programs you might get the common error message:

checking for C compiler default output file name...
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

with the config.log showing:

/usr/bin/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory

To fix in Debian:

# aptitude install libc6-dev

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