bug#35691: [bug-guix] remote configure failure due to bad pathnames for crt*.o

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Nelson,

"Nelson H. F. Beebe" <address@hidden> skribis:

> However, if I instead execute those commands remotely with
>
>       % ssh guix10.vm.example.com 'cd FOO-x.y.z ; ./configure && make all 
> check && make install'
>
> then the configure script fails like this:
>
>       checking whether the C compiler works... no
>       configure: error: in `/local/build/cc/dw-2.00':
>       configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
>       See `config.log' for more details
>       ...
>
> The config.log file contains these messages:
>
>       ld: cannot find crt1.o: No such file or directory
>       ld: cannot find crti.o: No such file or directory
>       collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

You need to install the ‘gcc-toolchain’ package, not just ‘gcc’:

  
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Application-Setup.html#The-GCC-toolchain

I hope this helps!

Thanks for testing,
Ludo’.