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I am installing APE (Ajax Push Engine) on my MAC. But it is giving me an error during installation,

configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables.

I have gcc installed on my machine: gcc -v gives 'gcc version 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2336.1.00)'

How can I remove this error?

Monolo
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Vijay Kumbhar
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    You need to look in the `config.log` file to see why the command failed. There's no way of knowing without seeing the relevant part of that log. – Mat Aug 30 '12 at 07:08

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As Mat said, check the config.log. I had a similar issue while building SpiderMonkey on ML, and the error turned out to be to do with the configure expecting the C-compiler executables to be called gcc-4.2 and g++-4.2 which is not the case in OSX, they are called gcc and g++ instead.

To fix the problem I did:

$ export CC=gcc
$ export CXX=g++
$ ./configure

This way it worked and succeeded. Thanks to Mat.

maksimov
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