configure: error: installation or configuration — C compiler cannot create executables

Question

Every time I try to compile a configure sh, I am getting this error. It doesn't matter which one.
I installed and reinstalled g++ and cpp and many others. Here is an idea:

echo "void main(){printf(\"hello world\n\");}" |gcc -x c - -o /tmp/hello;/tmp/hello

<stdin>: In function ‘main’:
<stdin>:1:13: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘printf’ [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
<stdin>:1:13: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘printf’
<stdin>:1:13: note: include ‘<stdio.h>’ or provide a declaration of ‘printf’
/usr/local/bin/ld: this linker was not configured to use sysroots
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
bash: /tmp/hello: No such file or directory

config.log from one of the files.

This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

configure:555: checking host system type
configure:577: checking host specific optimization flag
configure:593: checking for gcc
configure:706: checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O6 -fomit frame-pointer ) wor$
configure:722: gcc -o conftest -O6 -fomit-frame-pointer   conftest.c  1>&5
configure:719:1: warning: return type defaults to 'int' [-Wimplicit-int]
 main(){return(0);}
 ^~~~
/usr/local/bin/ld: this linker was not configured to use sysroots
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
configure: failed program was:

#line 717 "configure"

here is another config.log

    This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

It was created by OpenFst configure 1.6.5, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69.  Invocation command line was

  $ configure 

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## Platform. ##
## --------- ##

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uname -m = x86_64
uname -r = 4.14.0-kali1-amd64
uname -s = Linux
uname -v = #1 SMP Debian 4.14.2-1kali1 (2017-12-04)

/usr/bin/uname -p = unknown
/bin/uname -X     = unknown

/bin/arch              = unknown
/usr/bin/arch -k       = unknown
/usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown
/usr/bin/hostinfo      = unknown
/bin/machine           = unknown
/usr/bin/oslevel       = unknown
/bin/universe          = unknown

PATH: /usr/local/sbin
PATH: /usr/local/bin
PATH: /usr/sbin
PATH: /usr/bin
PATH: /sbin
PATH: /bin


## ----------- ##
## Core tests. ##
## ----------- ##

configure:2373: checking for a BSD-compatible install
configure:2441: result: /usr/bin/install -c
configure:2452: checking whether build environment is sane
configure:2507: result: yes
configure:2658: checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p
configure:2697: result: /bin/mkdir -p
configure:2704: checking for gawk
configure:2720: found /usr/bin/gawk
configure:2731: result: gawk
configure:2742: checking whether make sets $(MAKE)
configure:2764: result: yes
configure:2793: checking whether make supports nested variables
configure:2810: result: yes
configure:2947: checking for style of include used by make
configure:2975: result: GNU
configure:3046: checking for gcc
configure:3062: found /usr/bin/gcc
configure:3073: result: gcc
configure:3302: checking for C compiler version
configure:3311: gcc --version >&5
gcc (Debian 7.2.0-18) 7.2.0
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

configure:3322: $? = 0
configure:3311: gcc -v >&5
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/lto-wrapper
OFFLOAD_TARGET_NAMES=nvptx-none
OFFLOAD_TARGET_DEFAULT=1
Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Debian 7.2.0-18' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-7/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,brig,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --with-gcc-major-version-only --program-suffix=-7 --program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-vtable-verify --enable-libmpx --enable-plugin --enable-default-pie --with-system-zlib --with-target-system-zlib --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-multiarch --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686 --with-abi=m64 --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --enable-multilib --with-tune=generic --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none --without-cuda-driver --enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 7.2.0 (Debian 7.2.0-18) 
configure:3322: $? = 0
configure:3311: gcc -V >&5
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-V'
gcc: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
configure:3322: $? = 1
configure:3311: gcc -qversion >&5
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-qversion'; did you mean '--version'?
gcc: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
configure:3322: $? = 1
configure:3342: checking whether the C compiler works
configure:3364: gcc    conftest.c  >&5
/usr/local/bin/ld: this linker was not configured to use sysroots
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:3368: $? = 1
configure:3406: result: no
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "OpenFst"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "openfst"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "1.6.5"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "OpenFst 1.6.5"
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "help@www.openfst.org"
| #define PACKAGE_URL ""
| #define PACKAGE "openfst"
| #define VERSION "1.6.5"
| /* end confdefs.h.  */
| 
| int
| main ()
| {
| 
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }
configure:3411: error: in `/root/Downloads/openfst-1.6.5':
configure:3413: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details

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## ----------- ##
## confdefs.h. ##
## ----------- ##

/* confdefs.h */
#define PACKAGE_NAME "OpenFst"
#define PACKAGE_TARNAME "openfst"
#define PACKAGE_VERSION "1.6.5"
#define PACKAGE_STRING "OpenFst 1.6.5"
#define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "help@www.openfst.org"
#define PACKAGE_URL ""
#define PACKAGE "openfst"
#define VERSION "1.6.5"

configure: exit 77"

root@CybernetiX:~/Downloads/openfst-1.6.5# bash configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether make supports nested variables... yes checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... no configure: error: in /root/Downloads/openfst-1.6.5': configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables Seeconfig.log' for more details

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root@CybernetiX:~/Downloads/julius-4.3.1# bash configure loading cache ./config.cache checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking host specific optimization flag... support/cflags.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O6 -fomit-frame-pointer ) works... no configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables.

Answer 1

The line

  echo "void main(){printf(\"hello world\n\");}" |gcc -x c - -o /tmp/hello;/tmp/hello

will fail at the first statement

gcc -x c - -o /tmp/hello

because

void main(){ 
    printf("hello world\n");
}

isn't valid c or c++ code. Hence no executable generated, hence no executable to execute (/tmp/hello).

The simplest valid (shell embedded) c code I can think of to provide there would be

echo "#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {printf(\"hello world\n\");}" |
gcc -std=c99 -Wall -pedantic -x c - -o /tmp/hello; /tmp/hello   

See the Live Demo

Answer 2

Do you use a custom linker (ld)? It seems so (/usr/local/bin/ld). Gcc passes some options to the linker (--sysroot in this case) and they are not supported by the linker. You have to either rebuild binutils (where the linker comes from) or pass some options to gcc (I don't know what). Search the Web for that error message regarding the linker.