I’ve relaunched RobsHouse.net on Drupal 5, yay! It was about time, too. For years it was running on a 4.6 Drupal (Civicspace, actually), and I had done nothing but break it more and more over the years. Thank goodness nobody could see the watchdog messages… PHP errors galore and just about everything else wrong as well. This site, however, is a different beast. While it is not comparable in complexity to some of the large media sites that are being launched on Drupal these days, it’s a pretty good effort for one guy over a long weekend. I’m using 54 custom modules on this site! Click here to see the full list. More details after the break.

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This is the second time I've run into this error and I'm sick of Googling around for the answer. So I'm documenting it here. When preparing to compile code on Linux, one runs the configure command. If you don't have your compilers in order, you'll be faced with a message like this:


root@robert-desktop:/usr/src/memcache-2.1.0# ./configure --enable-memcache
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for gcc... /usr/bin/cpp-4.0
checking for C compiler default output file name... conftest.in
checking whether the C compiler works... configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.
If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
See `config.log' for more details.


The problem can be figured out by looking at the environment variables for your C compiler:


env | grep CC
CC=/usr/bin/cpp-4.0