[SOLVED] Current Debian Sid: "configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables"

[Vicky4]

Hi,
following the usual procedure with an up-to-date Debian Unstable,

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$ sudo apt-get install build-essential pkg-config libc6-dev libssl-dev libexpat1-dev libavcodec-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libqt4-dev zlib1g-dev
$ wget http://www.makemkv.com/download/makemkv-bin-1.12.3.tar.gz
$ wget http://www.makemkv.com/download/makemkv-oss-1.12.3.tar.gz
$ tar xvzf makemkv-oss-1.12.3.tar.gz 
$ tar xvzf makemkv-bin-1.12.3.tar.gz

...compiling just gets me the following error:

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$ ./configure 
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
configure: WARNING: Libtool does not cope well with whitespace in `pwd`
checking how to print strings... printf
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `.../makemkv-oss-1.12.3':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details

Some package versions you might find relevant:

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ii  gcc                                  4:8.2.0-1               amd64 
ii  build-essential                      12.5                    amd64 
ii  libavcodec-dev:amd64                 7:4.0.2-1+b1            amd64 
ii  libc6-dev:amd64                      2.27-6                  amd64 
ii  libexpat1-dev:amd64                  2.2.6-1                 amd64 
ii  libgl1-mesa-dev:amd64                18.1.8-1                amd64 
ii  libqt4-dev                           4:4.8.7+dfsg-17         amd64 
ii  libssl-dev:amd64                     1.1.1-1                 amd64 
ii  pkg-config                           0.29-4+b1               amd64 
ii  zlib1g-dev:amd64                     1:1.2.11.dfsg-1         amd64 

I'm hesitant to post the whole config.log (to not bore you), but here's what looks interesting (preceding errors):

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(...)
configure:3233: gcc -V >&5
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-V'
gcc: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
configure:3244: $? = 1
configure:3233: gcc -qversion >&5
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-qversion'; did you mean '--version'?
gcc: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
configure:3244: $? = 1
configure:3264: checking whether the C compiler works
configure:3286: gcc    conftest.c  >&5
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/8/../../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/8/liblto_plugin.so: error loading plugin: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/8/liblto_plugin.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:3290: $? = 1
configure:3328: result: no
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "ffabi"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "ffabi"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "0"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "ffabi 0"
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
| #define PACKAGE_URL ""
| /* end confdefs.h.  */

Any ideas? This surely has to do with some updated Debian packages; re-compiling my current MakeMKV Version 1.12.0 also gives the same error.

(Edit: Made some corrections due to copy&paste errors)

Edit 2020-01-05: I gave it another try and, to my pleasant surprise, installation now works again with the current Debian Sid version. gcc: 4:9.2.1-3.1, libc6: 2.29-7.

[xr200]

$ wget http://www.makemkv.com/download/makemkv ... 2.1.tar.gz
$ wget http://www.makemkv.com/download/makemkv ... 2.1.tar.gz
$ tar xvzf makemkv-oss-1.12.0.tar.gz
$ tar xvzf makemkv-bin-1.12.0.tar.gz

The current version is 1.12.3. As far as I know, older versions for Linux are not maintained.
In other words, your wget-s for version 1.12.1 should fail. If I run those commands,
they fail for me with a "not found" error.

Secondly, you say you downloaded version 1.12.1, but you unpacked (with tar xvzf)
version 1.12.0.

So I don't know what you are trying to compile.

[Vicky4]

Sorry, that was to illustrate the process... copy&paste error. Of course, I downloaded and precessed the currect version 1.12.3. That all went well, up to "./configure". And that error isn't specific to 1.12.3, but also to 1.12.0 which compiled ok back then.

[Vicky4]

I still fail to compile any MakeMKV version on my Debian Unstable installation, be it the latest 1.14.2 or the old 1.12.0 I'm still forced to use now (which compiled just fine back then).

Would be glad to hear from other Debian users if they have problems, too... or preferably, any hint on what the problem could be...

[edent]

I also have this problem on Ubuntu.

Used to work just fine, a few versions back. So strange!

[edent]

SOLVED! Problem appears to be with

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cc1: error: /usr/local/include/x86_64-linux-gnu: Not a directory
cc1: warning: /usr/local/include: not a directory

My `/usr/local/include`appears to be a file created by some other program. I ran:

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sudo mv /usr/local/include /usr/local/include.bak

It then compiled perfectly!