C compiler cannot create executables?

[dsimcha]

On 9/27/2011 1:44 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> For Debian/Ubuntu, you also need to consider that they've been experimenting with
> multiarch system for 32 and 64bit, which requires special patches to GCC so that
> it can find the correct locations of headers, libraries, etc.
>
> If you are using a vanilla GCC tarball to build, it may help if you put the
> following in your .bashrc
>
> LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu
> CPATH=/usr/include/i386-linux-gnu
> export LIBRARY_PATH CPATH

Thanks.  I ended up figuring out the same thing almost simultaneously. 
I solved it slightly differently by adding a few symlinks for important 
files to my /usr/lib and /usr/include/gnu directories.